enscript duplex not working

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Mar 2 04:18:28 UTC 2014


On 03/01/2014 11:13 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have used enscript in the past for printing off Internet Drafts 
> two-up in duplex on my HP8600:
>
> enscript -2r --margins=:::45 -DDuplex:true -P HP8600 
> draft-moskowitz-hip-dex.txt
>
> Worked fine in the past on my f17 install.  Well, you might recall 
> that back in December I installed f20 with Gnome, so for the 1st time 
> I used enscript to print off some IDs for next week's IETF meeting and 
> duplex is not working.
>
> Duplex works fine from Acrobat reader and LibreOffice when I select 
> that option from the print dialog.  So I know I have duplex properly 
> installed for the printer.  Enscript does not use Gnome print dialog, 
> but sends directly somehow.
>
> So any idea what I need to do for duplex printing?  I am heading for 
> the plane in 12 hours, and don't want to lug more paper than I have to.

I just tried using Firefox (opened the file locally then print and 
choose 2 pages per page and duplex), but it gets the lines per page 
wrong  enscript is at least getting that right...




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