Hi Tim,
> From memory it's associated with the way Evince mishandles duplexing
> (ie it treats a non-duplex printer like Laserjet 6P as a duplex
> printer). Try printing a pdf with an even number of pages to confirm -
> you shouldn't get the blank page.
Perhaps this is what I was remembering; I quizzed Clive in the pub
about odd v. even page documents and he said a blank appeared in both
cases.
> Currently using Evince 3.14.1 (Debian Jessie), and that has issues
> with scaling pages, which disappear if you do a print preview prior to
> printing!
Yesterday's Googling suggested some bugs related to the "scale to fit"
and "rotate to match paper" options as if evince does more intervention
in those cases and gets it wrong.
> Okular is OK
With the move away from Gnome, I've started using mupdf(1). Very fast
rendering. Lots of keyboard control. `3m' sets mark 3, `3t' moves back
to it. Plain `m' pushes the current page on the stack and `t' pops it.
Has somce nice filtering, e.g. greyscale, inverted, and tinting. But I
don't think it prints!
> when it comes to scaling when printing and the comprehensive scaling
> options in Evince are completely missing in Okular.
I don't have a good command-line program for that. pdftk(1) does a
bunch of things, but not N-up printing. psnup(1) means going to
PostScript and back. CUPS offers -o number-up={1,2,4,6,9,16} and I
think it can be configured to print to a PDF? Anyone know of a good
command-line PDF-manipulation program? (Hijacking Clive's thread a
bit.)
Cheers, Ralph.
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