Re: [SLUG] automatically breaking up large print jobs

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Fri May 19 2006 - 14:27:14 EDT


>> If you can get the jobs in Postscript format (should be pretty simple),
>> then you can use the psselect command to specify which pages to print.
>> You can grab the number of pages by looking for "%%Pages: " in the
>> Postscript file. Create a script does something like this:
>>
>> for ( $i=1; $i <= $numpages; $i+=4 ) {
>> startp = $i;
>> endp = $i + 3;
>> psselect -p$startp,$endp $postscript_filename $tempfile;
>> lpr $tempfile;
>> sleep 60;
>> }
>
> What happens when numpages=5, on the second pass (pages 5-8)? Is pselect
> smart enough to tolerate nonexistent pages?
>
> Don't forget to rm $postscript_filename $tempfile when you're done.

The script will no doubt need to be modified. Not sure if psselect can appect the
range or you may need to specify the individual pages (e.g., 9,10,11,12 instead of
9,12).

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