On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 00:11:44 +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> Hi!
>
> pdftops allows to expand a smaller page to fill the paper. xpdf
> doesn't have such an option.
>
> I was wondering whether it would be possible to use pdftops in a
> clever printing command in the xpdf printing dialog ("Print with
> command" or "Print to file").
I don't know how to use pdftops as a print command because it does not
seem to be capable of reading the PDF directly from STDIN. (Processing a
PDF requires random access to the file and the STDIN stream is not
seekable.) Ghostscript, on the other hand, is smart enough to copy the
input PDF stream to a temporary file for processing:
cat test.pdf | gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage
-sPAPERSIZE=a4 -o %pipe%lpr -
The above combination of commands prints test.pdf on my default printer
after scaling it to fit the page. Therefore I would hope that the
following works as a print command for XPDF (which I have not used in
years, though):
gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -o
%pipe%lpr -
If you want to specify further options for lpr then you have to use
quoting like this:
"%pipe%lpr ..."
where "..." stands for all the options. (The rest of the command remains
the same.)
--
Regards, |
Florian |
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