pstops is designed to be called from within the CUPS system. It requires
either five or six options. The first three, job-id, user, and title
are ignored. Copies is an integer representing the number of copies
you want printed and options is a single argument which looks like
this:
Duplex=Tumble InputSlot=Upper
The path to the PPD file is fetched from the PPD environmental
variable. If you do not specify a filename as the last parameter then
the PS job will be read from stdin.
ppdfilt is designed to be a more flexible command used by either users or
within a print filter. By default it will read a file from stdin and
it will fetch the ppd specified in the PPD environemental
variable.
OPTIONS
"-?
Print out a brief help message and then exit.
"-2
Print at the document in such a way that every page is rotated 90
degress and then shrunk down to 50 percent so that two pages of
information fit on one piece of paper.
"-4
Print at the document in such a way that every page is shrunk down to
25 percent so that four pages of information fit on one piece of
paper.
"-c
Specify the number of copies that are printed.
"-d
If the printer is so equipped. Print on both sides of the piece of
paper. There are two kinds of duplexing depending on which edge you
are going to bind the document. The default is NoTumble which is most
appropriate for portrait printing where you are going to bind along
the long edge. Tumble is more appropriate when you are printing
landscape and binding along the long edge.
"-D
If the printer is so equipped. Print on both sides of the piece of
paper such that if you are printing landscape and binding along the
long edge or if your are printing portrait and binding along the short
edge, the pages will appear right side up.
"-p
Specify the ppd filename rather than use the one specified in the
environmental variable PPD.
"-o
This argument allows you the flexibility to specify all the options
available in the PPD file as well as the special non-ppd options
listed below. You may have as many "-o" options on the command line
as you like.
"-V
Print out the version number and exit.
NON PPD OPTIONS
Most options are specified in the PPD files. However, there are some
options which are built into pstops/ppdfilt program for
convience. An example of this is Nup which is implemented without the
use of any device specific code from the PPD file. (The default is
listed in all caps.)
"page-ranges:
There is one page range that you can set. This limits the number of
pages that are printed to the ones between the lower and upper.
"page-set:
This allows you to specify printing either odd or even pages only.
"Collate:
When printing multiple copies. Collate the copies such that all the
pages from one document are grouped together with the printout.
"OutputOrder:
"number-up:
The default for this option is 1. This selects if the document is
printed normally, half size with two pages per sheet of pager, or
quarter size with four pages per sheet of paper.
