[PLUG] Chroot and printing

[Rogan Creswick]

On 1/26/06, John Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> Here is an ASCII representation of my print dialog box:
>

<snip>

I misspoke -- we are seeing the same print dialog, with the same
options.  I'm sorry for that.  To attone, a bit ;), I dug out the lp
man page.  -n <copies> is the parameter you want, and you should be
able to add that to the Printer Command string, assuming it is set to
<somepath>/lp.  The other likely option is that it is set to
<somepath>/lpr.  In the latter case, the switch is -# <copies>.  You
can also specify the printer here with either command (-P printername
in lpr, -d printername in lp).

So, to sum it up (and because I like examples...):

if Print Command is set to /usr/bin/lp, and you want 5 copies, then
change it to read:
/usr/bin/lp -n 5

if Print Command is set to /usr/bin/lpr, and you want the 5 copies:
/usr/bin/lpr -# 5

If you want to print the 5 copies to the printer "myOtherPrinter":

/usr/bin/lp -n 5 -d myOtherPrinter
or
/usr/bin/lpr -# 5 -P myOtherPrinter

I haven't tested these recently, but I've used them in years past.  I
know you're probably not thrilled with this interface.. but with
previous versions of Acrobat all we got were the Print Command lines. 
It's nice that the rest of the options are in a gui now (and also nice
that the printer command is still accessable -- you can do excelent
things there that would never fit in a pure GUI :).

Hope that helps,
Rogan

> Print to
> o   Printer Command [                               ]
> o   File  File Name    [                               ]  [Browse]
> Print range
> o   All
> o   Current page
> o   Pages from [   ] to [    ]
> Subset  [ All pages in range ]  [ ] Reverse pages
> [ ]  Print comments
> Postscript options
> [ ]  Shrink oversize pages to paper size   o Level 2
> [ ]  Expand small pages to paper size     o Level 3
> [ ]  Optimize for speed
> [ ]  Download Asian fonts
> [ ]  Save printer memory
>                                             [ Cancel ]   [    OK    ]
>
>
> That's all there is. No box to enter the number of copies. No button
> for "advanced," "collated," "duplex" or anything else.
>
> On my Windows machine some things are missing until you select
> the printer that has those features, then they magically appear. I
> wonder if that is the source of the problem.
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