On Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:44:54 PM Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-19, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > What do I check next to see if I can restore this function to a > > pretty decent color laser printer? > > Is it the printer or is it okular? Have you tried evince, for example?
evince also ghosts out the duplex functions, and of coarse xpdf never heard of such a thing. As for acrobat reader, its not in the repo's and while it might try to, any sneeze in the paper feeding and it turns into a buggy, 10 day old road kill carcass. I just had it print, accidentally the whole 88 page thing single sided, but I'd swear on a good sized stack of bibles that I clicked on cancel when I found out that even with at least 18 more printer thingies installed (I've been busy with synaptic this day), I am stuck doing single sided, wasting reams of paper because wheezy doesn't seem to be able to do it AT ALL. Everything points to poppler not being able to handle duplex. That apparently means that, since poppler is so deeply entwined with anything gnomeish when it comes to paper, that my only recourse is to install all of kde and convert the system. I did install some of kde printer managers however, and they are apparently equally emasculated. I am not sure how ununtu-10.04.4 LTS did it but it Just Worked. Here I have a printer that I dropped the card for north of $800 USD with a set of spare toner cartridges, and 18 months later I can't use it. And this is called an improvement? Sorry, I have a different name I apply to this degression. But, its not your fault Curt, so many thanks. I guess my question is, how many others with full duplex capable printers, are now crippled? Might there be a backport repo I could add to /etc/apt/sources.list where I might find the fix? Or does it not exist yet even in Jessie? IDK. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502191347.41071.ghesk...@wdtv.com
