Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Emiliano Grilli; <emillo@emillo.com> on 24 Jun, 2001 wrote:

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Hi all...

I could not locate the mpage program under SuSE 7.1 ... Maybe there is another program for printing 2 or more pages of text on a single page of paper? Or maybe is part of a package that I don't install and not included in the description?

Sound strange to me that a so rich distribution lacks a tool like mpage.

It does not have mpage yet more powerfull ones are there starting with a2ps have a look info a2ps

The most elegant solution would be to print with: lpr file1 If apsfilter detects that file1 is a text file, it uses a2ps by default to convert the file into a postscript file, and passes it on to Ghostscript. The options for a2ps (2 or more pages on a sheet of paper, and much, much more) should be set in /etc/apsfilterrc, or, even better, in /etc/apsfilterrc.<gs_printerdriver> (if you installed with yast1), or in /etc/apsfilterrc.y2prn_<queue>.upp if you installed with yast2. However!!!! I remember that this worked in 6.3, but in 7.1 lpr file1 does not work if file1 is a text file. From all what I have found, I suspect that the reason is that the version of a2ps in 7.1 is newer than apsfilter expects. So if you have a look at /etc/apsfilterrc.<......> you see how you can have apsfilter use _enscript_ instead of a2ps, and, similarly, set its options there. But I must say: haven't tried it myself yet. SH