Hello, On May 1 17:57 Jens Hansen wrote (shortened):
... look if there is the possibility to choice paper-orientation in the printer-properties-menu, but it still lacks. In the past I installed the openoffice.org version which has the choice. I need it for brochure-printing.
Brochure-printing is not supported directly by the CUPS printing system. Therefore there is no such option in generic printing dialogs. The CUPS printing system supports only "N-Up Printing", see http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/options.html But application programs can support brochure-printing. Therefore a brochure-printing option could be in the printing dialog of a particular application or elsewhere in the menue of a particular application which supports brochure-printing. "Brochure-printing" means reordering of the pages plus "N-Up Printing" plus duplex printing. For example to print the document pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 as a brochure, print document pages 8 and 1 on the front side of the first sheet, print document pages 2 and 7 on the back side of the first sheet, print document pages 6 and 3 on the front side of the second sheet, print document pages 4 and 5 on the back side of the second sheet. The CUPS printing system does not support page reordering in one print job and therefore it cannot support brochure-printing. Unfortunately it is not possible to use CUPS options like -o page-ranges=1,8 -o outputorder=reverse -o number-up=2 to print e.g. only the front side of the first sheet because http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/options.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- The page numbers used by page-ranges refer to the output pages and not the document's page numbers. Options like number-up can make the output page numbering not match the document page numbers. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I.e. "number-up=2" happens first which gets document page 1 and 2 on the first printed page which is then selected by "page-ranges=1" to be actually printed. I used the following command to test it (on one single line): -------------------------------------------------------------------- echo -e "1\f2\f3\f4\f5\f6\f7\f8\f" | a2ps -1 -o - | lp -d queue_name -o page-ranges=1,8 -o outputorder=reverse -o number-up=2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- There are big PostScript printers whith additional units for duplex printing and a stapler plus folder so that the printer can do brochure-printing on its own. In the end for brochure-printing either use an appropriate application program (plus duplex printing of the printer) or an appropriate big PostScript printer. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org