From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Salvador Mirzo  wrote:   
   > Salvador Mirzo  writes:   
   >> Wonderful!  Pretty nice as well.  Very easy to use.  Now, it can't seem   
   >> to use lpr for printing?  That's how I print. :) But I can workaround it   
   >> by figuring out how to tell lpr to tell my printer to only print a few   
   >> pages I'm interested in and then use the command line.  Thanks for   
   >> mentioning qpdf.   
   >   
   > I suspect I imagine wrong how things actually work. I thought perhaps   
   > there would be a command line such as ``lpr --pages 7-14''.  Now I   
   > believe a program like evince generates a PostScript of the pages you   
   > asked it to and then sends this complete PostScript document of the   
   > pages you requested to a pipe or file on disk that lpr sends to the   
   > printer.  So, if qpdf doesn't do the same, I'm out of luck in terms of   
   > printing with lpr.  But I think I can find a program that takes page   
   > ranges and transformations like scaling and produces a PostScript   
   > document that I can send to lpr, so I can use qpdfview and use the   
   > command line to print stuff out.   
      
   If you want a Postscript file of a page range from a PDF, convert the   
   PDF to Postscript first then use psselect from psutils. Or use the   
   "save marked" function in gv, which I personally use as my default   
   PDF viewer.   
      
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