Bug in pstops?

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Wed Nov 3 04:54:44 PST 2004


Christoph Litauer wrote:
> 
> Michael Sweet schrieb:
> > Christoph Litauer wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >> Looks like Duplex is set to 1 if the ppd file specifies duplex printing
> >> by default. As my ppd-File contains
> >>
> >> *DefaultDuplex: DuplexNoTumble
> >> ...
> >
> >
> > No, if you look further up you'll see that we use cupsMarkOptions()
> > to mark the job options in the PPD options, so the Duplex options will
> > reflect the sides/Duplex option setting by the user, not just the
> > defaults in the PPD file.
> >
> 
> Sorry Michael, I overlooked that.
> In the meantime I analyzed the problem a little more. The extra pages
> are only generated if I use the Foomatic/PostScript driver for the
> printer. A "print to file" document with explicit one-sided printing
> enabled contains:
> 
> %%BeginFeature: *Duplex None
> %% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: Duplex=None
> %%EndFeature
> 
> If I print this document an extra page is added.
> Does pstops recognize that? What can I do against it?
> 
> --
> Regards
> Christoph
> 

If you view the file with Ghostscript, does this add the extra page
as well?

Helge

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