[Frugalware-devel] Questions about "printing.txt" documentation

Russell Dickenson russelldickenson at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 00:02:43 CEST 2009


OK - I have been editing some of the documentation source files and
have a question about the "printing.txt" file -

In printing.txt -

"== Multiple pages on a single sheet

This is also known as n-up printing. If an application doesn't support it
natively, print the document to a file as PostScript and use psnup:

-----------------------------------
$ psnup -2 print.ps > print2page.ps
-----------------------------------

The first option specifies the number of pages stacked on one physical sheet,
the second is the filename of the original one-sided document, and the last
is the n-up (two-sided) document. You can then print it with

-------------------------------------
$ cupsdoprint -P nameofprinter foo.ps
-------------------------------------

FIXME - Should the file "foo.ps" actually be "print2page.ps"?  I thought that
the output of the first command was to be used as the input to the second."

Comment - As I've indicated above (FIXME), the file output by the
first command is not referred to in the the second command.  Is this
an error, or do I not understand this section?


May you always be Frugal,

Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz)


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