Duplex does not work on Mac

keens312 keens312 at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 24 01:11:00 PDT 2008


> > 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...)
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> ______________________________________________________________________
> > >> 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?
> >
> > --
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Emailed to you directly, please check your mail.
Hi Michael,

As your suggestion, I fixed the warning in PPD with cupstestppd command.

And now the RIP filter has rotated even page as expected.

Thanks very much.
Keene






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