evince, pdf and two side printing

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Kevac Marko wrote:

> Why choosing even or odd page to print is unavailable when printing
> pdf file in evince?
>
> It is huge spend of paper to print 700 pages file only on one side.

The whole mechanism for specifying print queue options in Linux is 
brain-damaged.  This is one thing that Windows still does way better than 
Linux.  Options should be selectable on the fly when you hit the Print 
button in any GUI app ("I want this doc printed landscape, duplex, flipped 
on the short edge, stapled; I want that doc printed portrait, simplex, 
2-up, unstapled, shaken, not stirred.").  OpenOffice offers some of these 
kinds of features in its own print subsystem, but that's not what evince 
uses.

I work around it by having separate queues for simplex and duplex directed 
to the same printer.  If I frequently needed other options, I'd have to 
have other queues.  Some options are not settable at all on some printers 
in Linux, but are in Windows.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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