| Summary: | lpr does not honor -# option | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Bill Lee <Bill> | ||||||
| Component: | cups | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 14 | CC: | jpopelka, twaugh | ||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2012-08-16 16:34:07 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Bill Lee
2011-05-06 21:14:10 UTC
Works here. Please run printing troubleshooter https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/Debugging#Printing_troubleshooter When it asks you to print a test page, print the document with 'lpr -# 2'. Then attach the output of troubleshooter to this bug report. You could also attach the postscript file you are printing (you can make the attachment private if you want). Created attachment 498271 [details]
Printer troubleshooting output (as requested)
Created attachment 498273 [details]
test page
Using Xerox 8550 as printer.
Ok, I can confirm that when I print the attached file with 'lpr -# 2 2011-04_bookPg1.ps' only one copy is printed. I believe the fault lies with the PostScript code produced by the "pswrite" driver. How did you generate 2011-04_bookPg1.ps? Could you try using the ps2write device (i.e. -sDEVICE=ps2write) instead of the pswrite device? The process is as follows: 1) Export the document as pdf from OpenOffice. 2)Use pdf2ps to take the pdf of the document into a PS file (call it "theDocument.ps). (An alternative which I have not explored is to "print to a file" i nPostScript format directly from OO.) 3) ps2book --debug -c --m=legal -p letter theDocument.ps This produces an output called theDocument_book.ps using lpr to print this document, the -# NNN fails. The example I have already attached was the first page of theDocument. Not sure how I got it, but used one tool or another on my system (Linux/Fedora14). BTW, the =# NN worked just fine up until a year or so ago. Which is NOT to say that the problem isn't in one of the tools I use to get to the "_book" format. Okay, I expect that exporting straight to PostScript, rather than going via PDF, will avoid this particular problem. Failing that, you could try pdftops instead of pdf2ps -- this poppler-based utility is much more reliable in my experience. Another variable is whether you use the "collate" option when printing, i.e. lpr -o collate -# 2 ... I'm not sure which package provides the "ps2book" utility you're using -- perhaps it's actually "psbook" from psutils? In any case, it would be useful if you could narrow down the shortest sequence of steps to reproduce the problem, so that we can identify the problem component. This message is a notice that Fedora 14 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 14. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version' of '14' have been closed as WONTFIX. (Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.) Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen this bug and simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were unable to fix it before Fedora 14 reached end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" (top right of this page) and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping |