[pdftex] Trying to print testpage with Acrobat Reader 5.06

[The Thanh Han]

I use a script to call acrobat or pdftops to print a pdf file to ps as
following:

printpdf [--pdftops|--acr|--a4|--a5|--letter|--lpr] <file>.pdf

the result is <file>.ps

if no option is specified then --acr (acroread) and --a4 is used. 
--lpr prints the ps file using lpr, of course.

HTH,
Thanh


On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:03:02AM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 23:42, Martin Schroeder wrote:
>  .
> > 
> > What helps is to toggle the pagesize in the page setup to letter
> > and back to A4. Weird...
> 
> yup, I have to do that every time. it insists on starting up
> with lettersize dimensions every time. If there is a way
> around it, I have not found it yet after at least a year of
> frustration
> -- 
> Sebastian Rahtz      OUCS Information Manager
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#!/bin/bash

cmd() {
    echo "$*" 
    eval "$*"
}

progname=$0

lpr=n

# a4 paper size in points:
a4w=595
a4h=842

a5w=420
a5h=595

# letter paper size in points:
letterw=612
letterh=792

# defaults:
program="acroread"
paperw=$a4w
paperh=$a4h

while test $# -gt 0; do
    case "$1" in
    --pdftops) program="pdftops"; shift ;;
    --acr) program="acroread"; shift ;;
    --a4) paperw=$a4w; paperh=$a4h; shift ;;
    --a5) paperw=$a5w; paperh=$a5h; shift ;;
    --letter) paperw=$letterw; paperh=$letterh; shift ;;
    --lpr) lpr=y; shift ;;
    *) break ;;
    esac
done
    
if test "x$1" = "x"; then
    echo Usage: $progname "[--pdftops|--acr|--a4|--a5|--letter|--lpr] <file>.pdf"
    exit 1
fi

if test "$program" = "acroread"; then
    cmd acroread -toPostScript -fast -size ${paperw}x${paperh} -pairs $1 ${1%.*}.ps
else
    cmd pdftops -paperw $paperw -paperh $paperh $1 ${1%.*}.ps
fi

if test "$lpr" = "y"; then
    cmd lpr ${1%.*}.ps
fi


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