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Christian Schmitz

9 Jan 2024 9 Jan '24

21:55

Hi everyone: I want print in command line (i will use a script) two PDF files one in each side of the screen. Of course each PDF has single page. If i use this command the printer print two different sheets. lp -d DCPL2530DW -o sides=two-sided-long-edge hoja1.pdf hoja2.pdf How i can do? Happy New year Best Regards -- Be Free, Be Linux

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Carlos E. R.

9 Jan 9 Jan

22:14

On 2024-01-09 22:55, Christian Schmitz wrote:

Hi everyone: I want print in command line (i will use a script) two PDF files one in each side of the screen. Of course each PDF has single page. If i use this command the printer print two different sheets. lp -d DCPL2530DW -o sides=two-sided-long-edge hoja1.pdf hoja2.pdf

How i can do? Happy New year

You mean print in the same piece of paper, the page 1 of PDF_1 and page 1 of PDF_2, side by side? I don't know how to do that, except by combining them in a graphical editor, by hand. I could produce a photo of both pages to the max resolution of the printer, and use perhaps convert to join both photos into one, then print that joined photo. It could be repeated for the entire document. Then, in you can code in postscript, perhaps you can do the same in postscript. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Robert Webb

23:29

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:14:36 +0100, "Carlos E. R." wrote:

On 2024-01-09 22:55, Christian Schmitz wrote:

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Hi everyone: I want print in command line (i will use a script) two PDF files one in each side of the screen. Of course each PDF has single page. If i use this command the printer print two different sheets. lp -d DCPL2530DW -o sides=two-sided-long-edge hoja1.pdf hoja2.pdf

How i can do? Happy New year

You mean print in the same piece of paper, the page 1 of PDF_1 and page 1 of PDF_2, side by side?

'pdfunite' from the poppler-tools package can combine two PDFs into one. pdfunite page_A.pdf page_B.pdf out-two_pages.pdf Use '/dev/stdout' as the output filename to pipe to the print command. -- Robert Webb

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Simon Becherer

10 Jan 10 Jan

07:37

Am 10.01.24 um 00:29 schrieb Robert Webb:

On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:14:36 +0100, "Carlos E. R." wrote:

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On 2024-01-09 22:55, Christian Schmitz wrote:

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Hi everyone: I want print in command line (i will use a script) two PDF files one in each side of the screen. Of course each PDF has single page. If i use this command the printer print two different sheets. lp -d DCPL2530DW -o sides=two-sided-long-edge hoja1.pdf hoja2.pdf

How i can do? Happy New year

You mean print in the same piece of paper, the page 1 of PDF_1 and page 1 of PDF_2, side by side?

'pdfunite' from the poppler-tools package can combine two PDFs into one.

pdfunite page_A.pdf page_B.pdf out-two_pages.pdf

Use '/dev/stdout' as the output filename to pipe to the print command. -- Robert Webb

pdftk will do also combine 2 pdf pages: pdftk first.pdf second.pdf cat output cobined.pdf simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Manfred Schwarb

14:13

Am 10.01.24 um 08:37 schrieb Simon Becherer:

Am 10.01.24 um 00:29 schrieb Robert Webb:

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On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:14:36 +0100, "Carlos E. R." wrote:

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On 2024-01-09 22:55, Christian Schmitz wrote:

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Hi everyone: I want print in command line (i will use a script) two PDF files one in each side of the screen. Of course each PDF has single page. If i use this command the printer print two different sheets. lp -d DCPL2530DW -o sides=two-sided-long-edge hoja1.pdf hoja2.pdf

How i can do? Happy New year

You mean print in the same piece of paper, the page 1 of PDF_1 and page 1 of PDF_2, side by side?

'pdfunite' from the poppler-tools package can combine two PDFs into one.

pdfunite page_A.pdf page_B.pdf out-two_pages.pdf

Use '/dev/stdout' as the output filename to pipe to the print command. -- Robert Webb

pdftk will do also combine 2 pdf pages:

pdftk first.pdf second.pdf cat output cobined.pdf

pdfarranger is my preferred tool for such things. Cheers, Manfred

simoN

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Bengt Gördén

14:37

I like qpdf and everything at once $ qpdf --empty --pages hoja1.pdf hoja2.pdf -- - | lp -dDCPL2530DW -o sides=two-sided-long-edge -- /bengan

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Christian Schmitz

16 Jan 16 Jan

17:47

On Wednesday 10 January 2024 15:37:16 Bengt Gördén wrote:

I like qpdf and everything at once

$ qpdf --empty --pages hoja1.pdf hoja2.pdf -- - | lp -dDCPL2530DW -o sides=two-sided-long-edge Finally i use pdftk because i already have installed. Because is a printing script that print allways the same (a user manual) i dont use the pipe, i create a file "duplex1.pdf"

Thanks to all for the answer. Christian -- Be Free, Be Linux

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Bengt Gördén
Carlos E. R.
Christian Schmitz
Manfred Schwarb
Robert Webb
Simon Becherer