On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:25:09 -0600 Bruce Hill <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 09:43:06AM -0700, Joseph wrote: > > I have a document "letter" size in landscape mode and I'm trying to > > print it with e-document viewer 4-pages per side and it will not > > print. Some documents prints OK but this one will not print it. > > > > Are there better programs in Linux for printing pdf files? > > > > pdfinfo Biol_321_2013_Lec_06_Biogeography_1_per.pdf > > Title: Microsoft PowerPoint - Biol 321 2013 Lec 06 > > Biogeography.pptx Author: hproctor > > Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 > > Producer: Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows) > > CreationDate: Wed Jan 23 17:43:54 2013 > > ModDate: Wed Jan 23 17:43:54 2013 > > Tagged: no > > Pages: 18 > > Encrypted: no > > Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) > > File size: 961318 bytes > > Optimized: yes > > PDF version: 1.4 > > lp still does a good job for me: > > mingdao@workstation ~ $ lpstat -a > Officejet_Pro_8500_A910 accepting requests since Wed 23 Jan 2013 > 02:52:15 PM CST mingdao@workstation ~ $ lp -d Officejet_Pro_8500_A910 > -o scaling=75 HOW-TO/apcupsd.pdf request id is > Officejet_Pro_8500_A910-19 (1 file(s)) > > Bruce I haven't printed anything in a long time, but: CUPS drivers make all the difference. I used to pretty much get pathetic results using whatever was TheOfficialDriverOfTheDay for a given printer, and would get amazingly successful results using good old vanilla postscript or Generic PCL5/6 drivers. Go figure. There was a time the company went through just about every printer manufacturer in the business in 6 months trying to find a printer that actually worked (for sane values of work). In each case the official CUPS driver simply would not offer double-sided or shrink 2 pages onto 1 mode for *ANY* model. Postscript and generic PCL always worked every single time. /me baffled -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
