[expert] Printing on both sides

2000-09-26 Thread Jeff Malka
In the old DOS world, there was an ancient utility called 4print. What it did was allow you to take a text document and transparently print it in condensed form that permitted you to put 4 pages of text on each sheet of paper (2 on each side of the sheet). It prints one side first, waits for

Re: [expert] Printing on both sides

2000-09-26 Thread Alfredo Carlos López
Hi There is an utility call a2ps (anything to ps) that allows you to generate a postcript with several pages in one page for printing. Name: a2ps Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 4.12 Vendor: Red Hat Software Release

Re: [expert] Printing on both sides

2000-09-26 Thread Leopold Palomo
Hi, there's a group of utilities named psutils. There's the psnup, and the psbook, etc. that lets you do a lot of things. Maybe it can help you. I think that they are included in the last version of mdk. Best regards. Leo Jeff Malka wrote: In the old DOS world, there was an ancient utility

Re: [expert] Printing on both sides

2000-09-26 Thread Leopold Palomo
Hi, there's a group of utilities named psutils. There's the psnup, and the psbook, etc. that lets you do a lot of things. Maybe it can help you. I think that they are included in the last version of mdk. Best regards. Leo Jeff Malka wrote: In the old DOS world, there was an ancient utility

Re: [expert] Printing on both sides

2000-09-26 Thread BillK
mpage is used by the standard print setup for multipage printing (1,2,4 and 8 pages per sheet). There are lots of options, read man mpage. See the -J option, it describes in depth how to print a long doc, one all one side first, turn over the stack of paper and then the other side. Use the

Re: [expert] Printing on both sides

2000-09-26 Thread Jeff Malka
Thanks. I'll check them up. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Leopold Palomo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Printing on both sides Hi, there's a group