fancy multipage printing?

Asko Kauppi asko.kauppi at sci.fi
Thu Dec 2 08:48:29 UTC 2004


Well, gtklp seems otherwise good and functions, but it lacks the 
graphical see-what-you're-going-to-get-before-you-got-it thingy.  It 
makes all the difference, really..

Based on the screenshots, so does lpy:  
http://lpy.sourceforge.net/lpy_screen.html

Now, for comparison:  
http://www.fineprint.com/support/fineprint/tutorial/index.html

-ak


2.12.2004 kello 06:03, Daniel Saunders kirjoitti:

  There's also lpy - lpy.sourceforge.net
>
> I don't know much about it, I just discovered it on gnomefiles.org.
> However, It may do what you need.
>
> daniel
>
>
> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 06:22:18 +0100, Wander Boessenkool
> <wander at tomaatnet.nl> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 05:20 +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:
>>> Coming from a Windows world, I've probably been spoiled but..  is 
>>> there
>>> a fancy, graphical page view application that could be used with 
>>> Gnome
>>> / Ubuntu to see the contents in beforehand?
>>>
>>> Even better, to be able to select 1/2/.. pages per sheet etc.
>>> dynamically, and then confirm.  For the ultimate tool on this, see
>>> FinePrint (http://www.pdffactory.com/products/fineprint/index.html) 
>>> the
>>> Windows device driver. It's great.
>>>
>>
>> You could try gtklp. In any program you normally specify 'lp' as the
>> print-command you can use 'gtklp', which (among others) will give you 
>> a
>> nice graphical front-end with the multiple-page option you're looking
>> for.
>>
>>> ps. Even OS X has nothing close to it, unfortunately.  A mere Preview
>>> without the setup changes is not enough.
>>>
>>>
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