enscript duplex not working

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 03/02/2014 04:18 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> 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...
>
>

Now I have tried it on another printer that has duplexer.  I can duplex 
from any program I have tried that works through the gnome interface for 
printing.  But enscript is not duplexing.


Either I have to figure out how to fix this or replace enscript.