On Sunday 20 November 2005 18:16, Martin Langeland wrote: > Hi All, > I am trying to get a 36 page booklet from Open > Office 2.00 beta through Scribus 1.3.1 to a pdf 1.5 file on a suse > 9.3/64 machine.
Why PDF 1.5 ? - Unless you want to push layered content into the PDF, there is little gain -yet. I say yet, as there are things on the roadmap where this would matter. > The file appears on the screen beautifully in Acrobat 7. But when > I print in Acrobat it insists on single sided printing. > Open Office will print duplex. > Scribus will go through the motions but nothing comes out of the > printer. I have re-installed my printer with no change. > My question is where do I set the choice for the printer duplex > option? Can't find anything in Acrobat. There appears to be > something in print setup in Scribus but it has no effect on my > machine. Did you compile Scribus with cups support ? If, so there should be an options button which should give you a duplex option if CUPS thinks you have one. Note, duplex and landscape seems to not work often in CUPS from my experience. See: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=print1 To verify CUPS go to Help > About and look for C C T F A The 2nd C indicates CUPS support. A * means its not compiled with CUPS support. In Acrobat, I find much better better to print using Kprinter instead of relying on the lpr command which is the default. Simply type in kprinter and you have a nice gui which pops up and will give you access to all your printers options as understood by cups. You can use the 'kprinter' command with *any* application where you can name the print command. > Does this sound like it is entirely my printer drivers (HP > Officejet 6110 all-in-one)? Or am I missing something in the > software? > > Many thanks as always for this forum. I particularly enjoy the > current discussion of book printers. > > -- ml Hope that helps, Peter
