A little disappointed so far

[Graham Nicholls]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> Graham Nicholls fed this fish to the penguins on Monday 19 May 2003
> 08:06 am:
> 
> 
>> Read the post - it was duplex printing I can't be bothered to work
>> with - I need to get to grips with CUPS (using lpr its a piece of cake
>> & I might go
>> back to lprng), and then work out how to do duplex.  I like duplex.
>> It saves paper and keeps my printouts small.
> 
>         Are you referring to "two-up" or "double-sided"?
> 
>         I ask as even the version of Acrobat Reader on my archaic (v8.2
> Mandrake) allows for printing only odd or even pages, which can then be
> flipped and fed back for the other side.

Ugh - I used to do that years ago - things always jammed after a few pages. 
No, I have a 
duplex (double sided printer)
> 
>         It also supports "fit to page" (and I /know/ my Windows version
>         has
> that) so the complaint about letter vs A4 can be worked around also --
> print the US-letter with "fit to page" active; it should result in just
> a small amount of side-squeeze, and might do a bit of a stretch
> lengthwise.
That is how I printed it, but was frustrated at the time, and had noticed
that it was a much larger file 
in A4, so assumed something was wrong.  Suspect a4 is smaller, so more pages
== more preamble 
== larger files.

Thanks
Graham
> 

-- 
Graham Nicholls
All round good guy.