From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Jan 13 01:57:10 2006 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ExIs1-0001ve-JT for mharc-a2ps@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:57:10 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExBnx-00007j-61 for a2ps@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:24:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExBnv-00005r-Bu for a2ps@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:24:28 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExBnu-00005e-Km for a2ps@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:24:26 -0500 Received: from [209.166.74.74] (helo=pilchuck.reedmedia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1ExBqn-0005jG-3X for a2ps@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:27:25 -0500 Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local (Exim 4.44) id 1ExBla-0005No-NM for a2ps@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:22:02 -0800 Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:22:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: a2ps@gnu.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: "Jeremy C. Reed" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:57:07 -0500 Subject: [a2ps] a2ps duplex and foomatic Duplexing X-BeenThere: a2ps@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Announcements and discussion about GNU a2ps List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:24:29 -0000 I am not sure if this is a problem or if it is a problem whether it is in a2ps or foomatic or my printer itself. I can print in duplex (and in duplex tumble) mode fine with my Brother HL-5150D printer using a foomatic script based on a BR5150_2.ppd. I just choose the foomatic script option Duplex_DuplexNoTumble or Duplex_DuplexTumble. But when I use a2ps first to take two pages of my postscript document so it is placed on one side of the page, then my foomatic-based duplexing does not work -- it only printed on one side. (I wanted it to print four pages per sheet, but instead I got two pages on one side and the other side was blank.) (I tried a few tests with different postscript files; they would not duplex print after processing with a2ps.) Any ideas if this is a problem? Is the problem in a2ps, foomatic or my printer? Then I used a2ps --sides=duplex and that in combination with the foomatic DuplexNoTumble option did print in duplex, but the back side was upside down. So I used a2ps --sides=tumble and that worked with foomatic's DuplexNoTumble and DuplexTumble -- they both behaved the same (printed same direction). This works for me! And now I just printed (the --sides=tumble output) without the foomatic option (Duplex=None by default) and it still printed in duplex. foomatic endup seeing the a2ps created "Found: %%BeginFeature: *Duplex True". For now I need to remember that when I use a2ps, I have to also remember to add the --sides=tumble (or =duplex) option if I want djuplex printing. So to reexplain my situation. I use foomatic's duplex option to print in duplex unless I use a2ps on the postcript first. If I use a2ps, my foomatic duplexing does not work. I must use a2ps --sides=duplex (or =tumble) to print in duplex (but then it doesn't matter if I use foomatic's options for duplexing). Is that normal? I am using a2ps-4.13.0.2nb8 package from pkgsrc and foomatic-filters-3.0.2. Please CC me on replies. Jeremy C. Reed Media Relations and Publishing Services http://www.reedmedia.net/