Hi Richard,
2009/3/13 Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk:
I have a PDF I want to print on two sides per sheet. Often I just use the print dialog from evince for this, but evince is refusing to open this one properly.
Have you tried other PDF viewing applications?
So why does everyone on the Web have a -o switch for their lpr and I don't? Mine is version 1:2008.05.17 from Debian unstable.
Any suggestions?
This may give you some hints...
man lpr (on an ancient Kubuntu box, also Slackware) shows the -o option, and....
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12 February 2006 Common UNIX Printing System
So seems this is lpr from CUPS, not the old UNIX lpr.
Hope that helps, Srdjan