On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:12:03AM +0930, John Pearson wrote > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:39:23PM +0800, maths wrote > > hello everybody > > > > with the helps of this list, now my printer worked. but i > > have a stupid question about gs: how to specify the pages i > > want to print? "gs -?" told me: embed %d or %ld for page# > > but get me an exmple, i had try to print page 5 of foo.pdf use > > > > # gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epsonc -sOutputFile=\|lpr foo.pdf %5 > > > > it seem to not work. > > > > %d instructs gs to "burst" the document, one file to a page; > e.g., > # gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epsonc -sOutputFile=foo.page-%d.pdf > > produces foo.page-1.pdf, foo.page-2.pdf, etc. > > To do what you want, try using psselect (from the psutils package): > # gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epsonc -sOutputFile='|psselect -p5' | lpr >
Aargh! Make that: # psselect -p5 | gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epsonc -sOutputFile=\|lpr *That* stands a half-way decent chance of working. Someone else asked about printing pages in reverse order; of the source is postscript, you can use psselect -r. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
