[Novalug] join 2 half pages into one

Theodore Ruegsegger gruntly at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 13:51:56 EST 2010


Peter Larsen wrote:

> When I use evince to view a PDF, and hit "print" I have a property
> that says "pages per page". Changing that rotates and places the
> pages side-by-side on a single sheet. No need to manually rotate and
> make tings fit.

Thank you, Peter, thank you! I've been looking for something like this
for a long time; now I can print a geocache description on a single
page.

> This is of course a property of the cups-driver; you may want to
> start there and find a driver that fits the more specific parts of
> your printer so it can be done on the fly for you?

Yikes, you're right, it gets even better! I no longer need the
intermediate print-to-PDF; I can do it directly from the browser!

Peter, you made my day.

Ted, paper-saver



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