Jon Peatfield wrote:
Today a user reported that printing from evince requesting N copies
results in N^2 copies comming out of the printer.
Now a quick check shows that doesn't happen for trivial ps files but
does for trivial pdf files.
What seems to be happening is that evince is converting the pdf to ps
and doing the N copies itself but also passing the copies option into
cups so the cups server then multiplies it again.
I can find code in evince (evince-0.6.0-8.el5 srpm) which while
converting to postscript for printing sends each page N times. I can't
find where it is actually sending the job to the printer specifying
#copies but my logs on out print server show that the server is getting
requests with copies
set.
Doesn't the number of copies go into the .ps file itself?
There _may_ be a template around that gets munged.
Ah, I googled for "postscript language reference" it's all available on
Adobe's website, but you might prefer not to print it all.
Look for where these are set:
#copies
NumCopies
Page 417 (which Evince thinks is page 431).
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John
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