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- From: blommer@euler.eecs.umich.edu (Michael Alan Blommer)
- Subject: Re: how to print file in normal order
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.210851.1258@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
- References: <POK.92Sep4111044@gabriel.ccs.yorku.ca>
- Distribution: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:08:51 GMT
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- In article <POK.92Sep4111044@gabriel.ccs.yorku.ca> pok@gabriel.ccs.yorku.ca
- (Pok Ng) writes:
- > Hi,
- >
- > Does anyone know how to set up the NeXT so that it WIIL NOT generate
- > postscript file with pages in reverse-order(ie I want first page first
- instead of
- > last page first)?
- >
- >
- > thanks
- > /pok
-
- I asked this question awhile back, and got the following response:
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
- In article <1992Aug17.150405.6011@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- blommer@euler.eecs.umich.edu (Michael Alan Blommer) writes:
- # This may be a FAQ, but I have not found the answer anywhere. Does anyone now
- # how to reverse the order in which the NeXT printer prints out pages? That
- is,
- # how can I make so that the printer begins printing with the first page of a
- # document instead of the last page of a document?
- #
- # Thanks in advance,
- # Mike
- # blommer@engin.umich.edu
-
- If it is I couldn't find it with Librarian.
-
- I use /usr/lib/transcript/psrev in a shell script as the output filter in the
- queue. psrev accepts POSTSCRIPT input on its stdin, reverses the page order
- and places the output on its stdout.
-
- --
- __ _ _ Colin Wu
- / ) // ' ) / Network Analyst
- / __|/ o ____ / / / . . Computing & Information Services
- (__/ (_) \_<_/ / <_ (_(_/ (_/_ McMaster University
- email: wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (NeXTmail welcome)
- wucolin@McMaster.CA (Generic email only)
- --------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Here's an example that I used to test this method, and it works (thanks Colin):
- First I used the Preview option in the print panel to create a .ps file. For
- the example it created the file /tmp/.preview760088.ps. Then in a shell, I
- used the psrev command
-
- % psrev /tmp/.preview760088.ps | lpr -P zwicker_printer
-
- zwicker_printer is the name of the printer used to print the stuff out. See
- the man pages for more info. and capabilities regarding psrev.
-
- Now for the good news. I looked around the documentation for printing in 3.0
- (beta release) and it turns out that things CAN be printed in reverse order (in
- 3.0). The print panel is very similar to that in 2.1, but to print stuff in
- reverse order, you just use the "From" option in Pages and enter "last" in the
- "From" field and enter "first" in the "To" field. It worked with a document I
- printed from a machine with 3.0 on it, but it doesn't work in 2.1. So if you
- can wait for 3.0, everything should be much easier.
-
-
- Mike Blommer
- blommer@eecs.umich.edu
- (NeXT mail welcome)
-