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Old 09-02-2010, 03:51 PM   #1
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solving print-from-PDF troubles


My printer is network-connected (wireless) HP OfficeJet all-in-one.
It mostly works as I want it to from my various ubuntu laptops.

There is a problem.
I open PDF documents ... directly from the web, or download then open from a file manager or cli command. Most often I'm using "document viewer" (whatever this means to gnome) or Evince. I usually use okular
when I'm using a shell.

The Problem: Pages print two-up ... that means that page-1
appears on the left and page-2 appears on the right of the same
landscape oriented sheet of letter paper. This behavior does not
happen from OpenOffice or from Firefox (unless I'm viewing PDF).
I've checked and triple check printer settings and options without
finding what is causing this behavior. As a result, I suspect that
there is some setting that applies to PDF buried in my $HOME hidden folders or their system-wide options files.

Can anyone help here?
~~~ 0;-/ Dan
 
Old 09-03-2010, 11:14 AM   #2
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All these viewers have their print options. Try file/Print Setup and look for a box that says 1 up or the like. It will be in there somewhere.
 
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All these viewers have their print options. Try file/Print Setup and look for a box that says 1 up or the like. It will be in there somewhere.
I have looked and looked for that sort of option without success.
Since it happens for all of the PDF programs, are there options for PDF in general out there some where? I vaguely remember there was some sort of PDF render filter but that was the olde "ghost view" days.

Wishing and hoping for help,
~~~ 0;-Dan
 
Old 09-23-2010, 04:09 AM   #4
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Old 09-23-2010, 04:39 AM   #5
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I have Evince 2.30.3 - it is called "Document Viewer" in Gnome.
Seems to be the same as yours. Maybe you have a slightly lower version which should not matter too much.
Okular is the KDE equivalent of it and I don't have nor know it.

in Evince
I choose "File" --> "Print" and get a print-setup dialogue with 5 tabs:

General, Page Setup, Job, Color, Advanced

in the first (General) I choose the printer, the page-range and so on...
The second tab (Page Setup) contans, in the second row, a menu to choose how many "Pages per side" are to be printed.
I can choose from 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 16

I also can generate a print preview from this dialogue.

HTH - because thats all I can say
 
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Old 09-23-2010, 05:07 AM   #6
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I have Evince 2.30.3 - it is called "Document Viewer" in Gnome.
Seems to be the same as yours. Maybe you have a slightly lower version which should not matter too much.
Mine is v2.26.1.

File --> Page Setup does not have any tabs.

File --> Print has tabs. One is Page Format.
VIOLA! There is the errant 2-up setting.

(blush) I could swear that I checked all of that stuff before. (sigh)

Thanks, heaps and stacks,
~~~ 0;-Dan
 
  


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