PostScript document not printing double-sided

[John A. Murdie]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> IIRC, dvips uses (the PostScript level1) media size names like A4, Letter, etc.
> to specify the page size, if they are defined within the interpreter, but
> most level2 and higher interpreters don't support these old stuff.
>
> Moreover, the jobs generated by dvips(k) are not really DSC compliant, so
> CUPS's pstops filter will probably treat these files not as expected.
>
> I've hacked a filter script (written in Perl) that fixes these issues, but
> the documentation is currently only in german. If requested, I could easily
> translate the description to english and publish this filter on the CUPS web site.
>
> Helge
>
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung

I don't wish to drag this thread out unnecessarily, but the real problem lies with the user in question continuing to use latex(1)/dvips(1) when they would be much better off moving to pdflatex(1), as I hope most people at my site have done. The user has become accustomed to using a specialist LateX package which will not play nicely with PDFLaTex. I'm encouraging them to find one that will. It is in this light that the sentence in my previous posting "What I meant was that had they used a correct PDF to PostScript translator, this problem would not have arisen." should be seen.

Thank you for your offer of a dvips-produced PostScript correcting filter, but I think I will continue to try to retire latex(1)/dvips(1) here.

John A. Murdie