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   Salvador Mirzo to Salvador Mirzo   
   Re: terminal only for two weeks   
   15 Jan 25 22:10:38   
   
   From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   Salvador Mirzo  writes:   
      
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   >> I use qpdf. Has sessions, and is fairly light weight.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
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