030605 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 9:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 030605 Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> Does anyone get a satisfactory printout
>>> with pp 1-2 on one side, pp 3-4 on the other.
>> i always use Gvim & print things with Xpp ,
>> which shows an option to print  2  or  4  pp/side, tho' i haven't
>> tried it. generally, Xpp is very good for printing text files.
> I don't know Gvim.

it's simply the GUI-interface to Vim, which is (hugely) improved Vi.
goto  www.vim.org/ .

> For most things I usually use kedit or kwrite, but 
> they don't seem to send the correct commands.
> GEdit doesn't seem to allow you to select printer or check page alignment.
> Perhaps I should try to find that Gvim?
> could you try to print 2up from Gvim, to see whether it handles it well? 

no, Vim has a very simple-minded 'print' command.

> I use xpp whenever I can -

so why not use Xpp to do this? goto 'Options' -> 'Basic' -> 'Page Ordering',
then fiddle with 'Page Set' & 'Scaled-down Printing'.  just what you want.

> It's not essential, but it saves trees <g>

anyone found printing 1-sided sb taken out into a forest & stapled to a tree.

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