[27265] in Athena Bugs
Re: hexagons go awry on w20color
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Dec 16 23:24:46 2008
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:24 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 16 Dec 2008
> at 19:11:33 -0500 in <AFD2D0C4-8F79-428E-96B3-1AAE32E548FC@mit.edu>:
>
>> [bug-print dropped, because I sent them mail about this last week]
>
> the hexagons, or w20color in general?
The duplex issue described in the e-mail.
>> The other major problem I discovered was that PDFs submitted from
>> Acroread
>> to the queue w20color2 only print the header page, and nothing
>> else. (The
>> printer insists that that it has nothing left to print.)
>
> Wow. I did see someone who had this problem, and we printed it from
> one of Copytech's Macs. Surprisingly, the copytech staff woman
> (Danita) assured me that this was not ok and a serious breach of the
> Athena rules to print from a non-athena machine to the athena
> printer. I had a call into John Guy to ask what was up with that,
> haven't heard back from him. [any clue what this is about?]
I don't know about "breach of the Athena rules", that sounds like
something that got lost in translation.
I do know that Copytech charges money for rentals of their Mac and PC
workstations, so perhaps that was the problem.
> Did you try that? (Also, did you try -Zduplex?)
I did not try -Zduplex (which should behave identically to spooling to
the duplex queue), nor did I try the web interface on the printer.
>> However, prepending the following PostScript to the file:
>>
>> %%BeginFeature *Duplex True
>> << /Duplex true >> setpagedevice
>> %%EndFeature
>>
>> And sending it directly to raw@w20color.mit.edu works just fine. I
>> found
>> this baffling, as I thought that's what the duplex queues did.
>
> Well, it's missing a %!PS-Adobe-3.0... actually, I'd tend to think
> the duplex queues use the postscript level 2 syntax (they're
> old enough). Maybe
>
> true statusdict /setduplexmode get exec
>
> or something?
Sorry, I was unclear. I inserted those three lines immediately
following
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
"prepending" was not quite the right word. I don't have a copy of the
postscript or I'd stick it in my Public.
I obtained said code from /mit/consult/lib/ps/duplex.ps, which is part
of lpr2 (and I don't really want to start recommending that to users,
given its cruftiness)
I can poke at this some more, but probably not until IAP at this point.
-Jon
