Tadziu,
Thank you for your detailed discussion.
> Is it a Postscript printer?
Yes. A HP LaserJet 2200d (duplex) with PostScript Level 2
> What program are you using to send the document to the printer?
lpr
When I have time, I'll study this further, but for now
what I have works for me.
Mike
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:47:27PM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > And the ps2ps is at the end because without it NOTHING
> > I did would make it print duplex in my HP LaserJet 2200d
> > (about 10 years old).
>
> Uh... the ps2ps is a *bad* idea -- it completely mangles
> your fonts. (I have no idea why it should do this, since
> ghostscript has no problems handling fonts correctly with
> the pdfwrite device.) You should get rid of it and find a
> real solution to your duplexing problem.
> Is it a Postscript printer?
> What program are you using to send the document to the printer?
> > The pstops arguments required A LOT of experimentation,
> > and I could not explain why it works for the life of me.
>
> The numbers appear strange because you are using two competing
> programs, psnup *and* pstops, to do the job of one. It would be
> much simpler to do without psnup and let pstops handle everything.
>
> For letter paper, "psnup -pletter -2" is equivalent to
>
> pstops -pletter '2:0L@0.647(7.809in,0in)+1L@0.647(7.809in,5.5in)'
>
> or
>
> pstops -pletter
> '4:0L@0.647(7.809in,0in)+1L@0.647(7.809in,5.5in),2L@0.647(7.809in,0in)+3L@0.647(7.809in,5.5in)'
>
> which is a 4-page version that just duplicates the page
> specifications, but is easier to compare with what follows.
>
> This would be sufficient (apart from scaling and such) if your
> printer supported tumble duplexing (short edge flip), which is
> what you need for booklet printing.
>
> If it doesn't (or you always forget how to turn it on), you can
> do the tumbling yourself. It simply involves rotating every
> other (final output) page by 180 degrees about its center
> and then printing in normal duplex mode (long edge flip).
>
> But this is something you can already do when assembling the
> original pages four to a sheet:
>
> pstops -pletter
> '4:0L@0.647(7.809in,0in)+1L@0.647(7.809in,5.5in),2R@0.647(0.691in,11in)+3R@0.647(0.691in,5.5in)'
> <dummydoc.ps >dummydoc.ps6
>
> This is similar to the version above, except that the 3rd and
> 4th page are rotated the other way and positioned differently.
> (The lower one is now at the top and the upper one at the bottom.
> Remember that a page's coordinate origin is at the lower left.)
>
> The scaling factor is computed to fit two input paper "widths"
> (8.5 in) into one output paper "height" (11 in). The positions
> are chosen to center the input paper height in the output paper
> width.
>
> I have attached a dummy document suitable for experimenting and
> the output of the two pstops runs above.
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