Jon Peatfield wrote:
> Today a user reported that printing from evince requesting N copies 
> results in N^2 copies comming out of the printer.
> 
> Now a quick check shows that doesn't happen for trivial ps files but 
> does for trivial pdf files.
> 
> What seems to be happening is that evince is converting the pdf to ps 
> and doing the N copies itself but also passing the copies option into 
> cups so the cups server then multiplies it again.
> 
> I can find code in evince (evince-0.6.0-8.el5 srpm) which while 
> converting to postscript for printing sends each page N times.  I can't 
> find where it is actually sending the job to the printer specifying 
> #copies but my logs on out print server show that the server is getting 
> requests with copies
> set.
>
Doesn't the number of copies go into the .ps file itself?

There _may_ be a template around that gets munged.

Ah, I googled for "postscript language reference" it's all available on 
Adobe's website, but you might prefer not to print it all.

Look for where these are set:
#copies
NumCopies

Page 417 (which Evince thinks is page 431).



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John

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