[scribus] Scripting kprinter duplex

Rolf-Werner Eilert eilert-sprachen at t-online.de
Tue Nov 22 10:58:53 UTC 2016


Am 22.11.2016 11:12, schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert:
> Writing a script calling kprinter to print duplex (portrait, 
> long-edge), what would be the option? I cannot find any hint on this.
>
> For lp the thing would be -o sides=two-sided-long-edge
>
> but for kprinter, it doesn't seem to work.
>
> I have to admit that for saving paper, I called the kprinter dialog 
> hoping it shows duplex on when it comes up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards
> Rolf
>
>

Now, I just made a test with a two-page PDF file sending

kprinter --nodialog -o sides=two-sided-long-edge -P drBuero ./Test.pdf

resulted in two sheets of paper which were printed "duplex" with one 
side left blank :)

What else would I need?

Regards
Rolf




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