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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > > Just been printing my end of course assessment essay for the open > university, thankfully good ol lpr works properly as hitting print in > document viewer fails > > anyway doing lpr eca.pdf prints the file, but from page 1 - 16, i just > wondered if there was a way to print in reverse so that once printed the > pages are in the correct order. saves having to sort manually. > > looking at the man page i can't find anything but perhaps someone else > has another solution. > > Essay gets sent off later today (as its now tuesday), so i can finally > think about upgrading to lucid, which may fix the above problem. > > thanks > > Paul > > Hi Paul :-) Just guesses.... 1. When you initially create/export the pdf can you create it in reverse order? 2. Looking at the man page for lp (not lpr) there is an -P option used to specify a page range. If your really lucky specifying a backwards range may reverse the page order for you? As I said this is just I guess! I have not tried it because I don't have access to a printer currently. lp -P 16-1 printInReverse.pdf Aside: According to my man pages for lpr and lp they are copyright to Apple Inc. which was a surprize! Best wishes Roly -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html