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As do many printers, my HP DeskJet 500 stacks printed pages
right side up. Thus, when it finishes printing a 30-page
draft in WordPerfect 5.1, for instance, the last page is on
top, and the entire stack has to be re-sorted to place the
pages in the correct order.
I realized that if I could print the document backward,
starting with the last page and ending with the first, the
resulting output would be in the right order. I therefore
wrote a WordPerfect macro, REVPRINT (for REVerse PRINT) to
do just that. REVPRINT goes to the bottom of the document,
prints that page, and then alternates between paging up and
printing the current page until it reaches page 1. REVPRINT
doesn't need to know in advance how many pages the document
contains.
Jerry L. Stern
Baltimore, Maryland
Editor's Note: Mr. Stern's macro, which we printed in the
January 1992 *.* column, works well on most documents.
However, it can fail if your document has a table of
contents. See the tip "Printing Backward Even Better" for a
macro, based on Mr. Stern's, that solves this problem. For
reference, here's the text of the original macro:
{DISPLAY OFF}
{Home}{Home}{Down}
{WHILE}{SYSTEM}page~>l~
{Print}2{Page Up}
{END WHILE}
{Print}2
Title: Run Your Printer Backward
Category: WPR
Issue Date: January, 1992
Editor: Brett Glass
Supplementary Files: None
Filename: P5WPR000.TIP