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Re: Duplex binding direction

Leonard,

The reason is that currently we implement these features in PostScript. As you rightly point out, we could implement things like n-up before we convert PDF to PS. We're working towards that goal.

-Paul


On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

At 4:55 PM -0800 2/27/03, Paul Danbold wrote:
The reason for not being able to do n-up and first from / remaining from with LaserWriter 8 is because the n-up code relies on the 'device' not changing during the print job. Changing the input slot does change the device and breaks n-up. Actually the same issue applies to PostScript printing on Mac OS X. Only we do not implement the dependency between first from / remaining from and n-up in the Print dialog UI.

Given that the spool file format is PDF, and the graphic subsystem can happily read and write PDF's...Is there a reason why n-up couldn't be handled by the printing system BEFORE it hits the printers? I know this info gets passed as part of the CUPS configuration (we see it in the unix scripts for PDF Workflow - thank you!) but it seems like something that would be nice to support for all printers rather than everyone reinventing the wheel...


Leonard
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