[cups.development] 2up printing - incorrect page size?

[Michael Sweet]

It should just work, but make sure you print the original and not the  
filtered file.

On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Dave Foster wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks again for your previous replies! My little print solution is  
> now up and running, and the clock is ticking on the amount of time  
> it is saving me!
>
> My next print project has me trying to print 2 copies of a PS/PDF  
> file (A4) - one at the original size and one blown up to A3.  
> However, when trying to do the 2nd (A3) copy,
>
> lp -o media=A3 -o fitplot filename.ps
>
> just prints to A4 as normal, and with a PDF file:
>
> lp -o media=A3 -o fitplot filename.pdf
>
> at least prints to A3, but with no page scaling (the original A4  
> size at the bottom left corner).
>
> Is there any way to get this to work? I have begun to try  
> duplicating and manipulating the original files to resize them, but  
> would prefer to avoid this (mainly because I'm struggling!) for the  
> most efficient solution. I am using Tea4Cups to trigger this  
> operation, and so ideally just want to print the datafile that it  
> comes out with.
>
> I'm on Mac OSX 10.5.7.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>
>> On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Dave Foster wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Is there any way I can achieve the results I'm after? I'm trying to
>>> avoid using any other methods (printing from Acrobat etc) otherwise
>>> the automation is useless! I'm on Mac OSX 10.5.7.
>>
>>
>> The "fit-to-page" option is not supported in CUPS 1.3.x.  "fitplot"
>> plus "number-up=2" *should* work as long as the input document
>> includes a bounding box for us to map the input pages to the output
>> size.
>>
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>> Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
>
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