[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#501311: cups-client: -P and -o number-up=2 interact surprisingly
Sanjoy Mahajan
sanjoy at MIT.EDU
Mon Oct 6 13:59:11 UTC 2008
Package: cups-client
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/lp
This command did 2up printing of pp. 81-102 from file.pdf:
lp -P 41-51 -o number-up=2 file.pdf
I expected it to extract pp. 41-51 from file.pdf, then convert them to
2up and send it to the printer.
I can think of two fixes:
1. In the description of the -P switch in the 'lp' manpage, explain
that the page numbers are those after page rearrangements.
2. Change the cups filters to first select pages with -P, then
rearrange pages.
The first fix clarifies the situation but makes it hard to use -P
with number-up, so I like the second fix.
-Sanjoy
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cups-client depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii cups-common 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcups2 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
cups-client recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cups-client suggests:
ii cups 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-bsd 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn cups-pt <none> (no description available)
pn gtklp <none> (no description available)
pn kdeprint <none> (no description available)
pn xpp <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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