On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 9:56 pm, Philip Webb wrote: > 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. > I can't find any way of doing that in GEdit. I Kwrite, though, I found that if I used preview it opened in GV, and there I could change the command to xpp. That's much better, but it doesn't handle the short edge flip properly. Still it's the best I've managed so far.
Anne
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