[cups.general] Adobe Reader 9.1/Linux and # of Copies

[Michael Sweet]

On Jul 18, 2009, at 6:47 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> ...
> Looking at the command that Reader is sending I can see why. The
> command contains "-o Copies = x." I can change x to whatever I want by
> selecting a different number in the GUI (you can't edit the line
> manually in Reader 9.1). But it still prints only one copy. That is
> because "-o Copies = x" is not valid lpr syntax. The correct syntax is
> "-#x." And lpr ignores all commands that it does not understand.
>
> However, I must have misunderstood something, because I can't believe
> Adobe released Reader 9.1/Linux with such an obvious and major glitch.


Adobe really did release software with such an obvious and major glitch.

FWIW, "-o copies=x" is also valid.  Putting spaces around the "=" is  
not, however.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer