psmandup(1)

psmandup1

Print duplex on non duplex printers

Usage

psmandup FILE

Overview

Tries to produce a version of the PostScript FILE to print in manual Duplex.

Options

-h, --help

display this help and exit

-v, --version

display version information and exit

-q, --quiet

don't print informational messages

-o, --output=FILE

save result in FILE. If FILE is `-', send to stdout

-n, --no-fix

don't call fixps to fix PS problems in FILE

-f, --front

output only the front pages (recto) on the regular tray

-b, --back

output only the back pages (verso) on the manual feed tray

Produced output is meant for PS level 2 printers which don't support Duplex printing, but support Manual Feed. Once the first set of pages is printed (odd pages), manual feed is asked: introduce the odd pages to print the even pages on the other side.

Because there is usually a short time out for manually fed jobs, you should really be next to the printer. If ever the time out expired, use the option -b to send only the missing part.

Environment variables FIXPS, PSSELECT and PSSET, if defined, are used to find the tools.

News, updates and documentation: http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 2.0
  2. 2.1
  3. 2.2–3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0–8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 12

--back since Debian 2.2 (Potato); --front since Debian 2.2 (Potato); -b since Debian 2.2 (Potato); -f since Debian 2.2 (Potato).

Author

Written by Akim Demaille.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>

From a2ps 1:4.14-8 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.