Bug 11686

Summary:	Duplex printing to PS printers missing
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tero Manninen <tero.manninen>
Component:	rhs-printfilters	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
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Version:	6.2	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Tero Manninen 2000-05-26 14:25:19 UTC

ps-to-printer.fpi (version 1.63-1) does not seem to know anything about
duplex printing. Our PostScript printer however does and so does mpage
(which is used by the filter to get the N-UP feature).
Without any better knowledge, I made following hack to the filter:

RCS file: RCS/ps-to-printer.fpi,v
retrieving revision 1.0
diff -r1.0 ps-to-printer.fpi
35a36,39
> if [ "$DUPLEX" = "2" ]; then
>     duplex="-t"
> fi
>
45c49
<     mpage_cmd="mpage -b$mpage_paper $border -$NUP -m${RTLFTMAR}lr
-m${TOPBOTMAR}tb"
---
>     mpage_cmd="mpage -b$mpage_paper $border -$NUP $duplex -m${RTLFTMAR}lr
-m${TOPBOTMAR}tb"

In addition to the above change I added a line "DUPLEX=2" into my
printer spool directory "postscript.cfg", and everything seems to work
just great (ASCII and PS printing).

The problem is that "printtool" does not know anything about DUPLEX setting
either. Anyway, this solution works for me. Maybe there are better ways to
do this?

Comment 1 Crutcher Dunnavant 2000-08-08 20:00:11 UTC

printtool REALLY needs an overhaul, but this will have to wait.

We are looking for a re-write in 7.1 (I know we said we'd do one by 7.0)
defering this bug.