Re: terminal only for two weeks

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:
 
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I use qpdf. Has sessions, and is fairly light weight.

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Wonderful!  Pretty nice as well.  Very easy to use.  Now, it can't seem
to use lpr for printing?  That's how I print. :) But I can workaround it
by figuring out how to tell lpr to tell my printer to only print a few
pages I'm interested in and then use the command line.  Thanks for
mentioning qpdf.

 
I suspect I imagine wrong how things actually work. I thought perhaps
there would be a command line such as ``lpr --pages 7-14''.  Now I
believe a program like evince generates a PostScript of the pages you
asked it to and then sends this complete PostScript document of the
pages you requested to a pipe or file on disk that lpr sends to the
printer.

Yes, selecting "which pages" happens before the result gets sent to lpr
(or cups).

But I think I can find a program that takes page ranges and
transformations like scaling and produces a PostScript document that
I can send to lpr, so I can use qpdfview and use the command line to
print stuff out.

If you are dealing with pdf files, then pdftk
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFtk> works very well of doing various
transforms on pdf files (including selecting a subset of pages, that do
not have to all be contiguous).

If you have actual postscript files, you can use ghostscript from the
command line to "distill" them to pdf (note ghostscrpts "pdfwrite"
output driver) and then use pdftk for further transforming.