[nylug-talk] Two-up printing

[Brian Jebian]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:27 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> > Many moons ago, I read somewhere (maybe on this list?) of a way to print a
> > document such that two pages are rendered side-by-side on one side of
> > paper in landscape mode. Combining this with two-sided printing would
> > save a lot of trees for large documents so I was wondering if anyone
> > remembered the "trick" to do this? Was it done with Ghostscript?
> >
> > Naturally, Im interested in FOSS solutions primarily.
> 
>    I know at least in KDE 3.5 under the print dialog "properties" button you 
> can choose a different number of "pages per sheet", I.E. 1-up, 2-up, 4-up, 
> which is why I like printing PDFs from KPDF (KGhostView and any other KDE app 
> could do the same thing).  Gnome seems to have a similar "Pages per side" 
> setting in the "Page Setup" tab of at least some print dialogs, so for 
> instance the Evince document viewer and the GIMP can do this too.
> 
>    -- Chris

Along these lines, you are suppose to be able to configure firefox to
use the KDE print system, allowing 2 pages per sheet.  These are
instructions off the web:

In the Firefox location bar, enter about:config
      * Once the list of configuration values is shown, right-click on
        an item in the list and choose New->String
      * In the first box, Firefox asks for the preference name.  Enter
        print.printer_PostScript/default.print_command (upper- and
        lowercase are important!), and click OK
      * In the second box, enter kprinter as the default print command.