[26478] in Athena Bugs
Re: acrobat 7 printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Jul 7 21:42:03 2005
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:41:13 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 7 Jul 2005
at 21:37:35 -0400 in <200507080137.j681bZrB010426@triad.mit.edu>:
> I'm not convinced that this will work until I try it and do some testing;
> I'll look into it next week, after I take some vacation time.
Thanks. It worked for me in initial testing.
> I think the most appropriate default to set, if it will work, is
>
> lpr -P${PRINTER}
>
> if that will work. I'm not inclined to make -Zduplex part of the
> default print command.
Oops, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to include that part.
I would much prefer you use
lpr
rather than
lpr -P${PRINTER}
Because the latter is much more confusing, especially for users
who've been taught to simply "Add -Pprintername."
> I've never added other options to default print commands before and
> I don't see a good reason to do so now.
Yes, I'm not proposing that, sorry.
> I'm willing to send a message through our zephyr messaging system
> explaining how to configure other print options if users want them.
As a rule, people find those messages annoying and don't read them :(
> In any case, Athena 9.4 Suns don't have /usr/bin/lpr at the moment- I
> think the command should be /usr/athena/bin/lpr -P${PRINTER}.
Yeah, that was my changing it from /usr/bin/lp in a sloppy fashion
and not noticing. But if we can avoid including -P${PRINTER}, let's do
so. It is confusing and adds no benefit.
--jhawk
