From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 14:05:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BFD16A4CE; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:05:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FB143D45; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:05:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de) Received: from [134.93.180.218] (edda.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE16300074F; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:04:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <420E0D00.4090303@mail.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:04:48 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Institut =?ISO-8859-15?Q?f=FCr_Geophysik?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-AT; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050202 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-mainz.de Subject: Magicfilter 2.X and duplex printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:05:01 -0000 Hello. Using magicfilter 2.3.b out of the ports runs me into a problem printing duplex on a duplex capable PS printer. In magicfilter 1.X it was simple inserting an intermediate conversion step with "psset" for preparing data stream being print duplex and/or selecting a different tray for certain paper qualities, colours or for transparency. In magicfilter 2.3 I miss such a facility or don't know how to implement such a conversion intermediate step in M4 (I do not program M4). A solution would be to save a file/document, convert to PS, using psset with the appropriate Duplex/Tray selectors and the print this out to the standard printing queue. But this isn't very convenient when printing from applications like Mozilla or other toolsets in which I have to give a printqueue. I feel more flexible selecting a specific queue for my own purposes than doinf many conversion steps outside an application. Does anyone solved such a problem? magicfilter 1.X was a very powerful solution for managin many printqueues on a printserver especially the very nice facilities of using many intermediate conversion steps of files beeing print were useful. I miss this simple way in magicfilter 2.3! Thnaks for your help, Oliver