Duplex does not work on Mac

[Michael Sweet]

keens312 wrote:
>> keens312 wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> Auto Duplex does not work as expected on Mac.
>>>
>>> cgpdftoraster does not rotate raster data, although I have specified *cupsBackSide "Rotated" in PPD.
>> What version of Mac OS X?
>>
>> cupsBackSide was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 and is not understood by
>> older Mac OS X releases.  You should also include the cupsFlipDuplex
>> keyword if you driver needs to work on older Mac OS X releases.
>> (this is documented in the spec-ppd.html help file...)
>>
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>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> I am using OSX 10.5 Leopard.
> The PPD contains
> *cupsBackSide   "Rotated"
> *cupsFlipDuplex "True"
> 
> I tried all kinds of options in command line to print duplex:
> $ lp -oPrintoutMode=Draft -oDuplex=DuplexNoTumble test.pdf
> $ lpr Duplex=DuplexNoTubmble test.pdf
> $ lpr -o Duplex=DuplexNoTubmble test.pdf
> $ lpr -o Duplex=True test.pdf
> $ lpr -o 'sides=two-sided-long-edge' test.pdf
> 
> None of them work for duplex, Michael, what's the correct option to tell CUPS RIP filter (cgpdftoraster) to rotated even pages?

Can you post a link to the complete PPD?  Or email it to me directly?

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com