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From: dnanian@uw.com (Dave Nanian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Manual Feed and Page Ordering issues:  followup.
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.182457.8854@uw.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 18:24:57 GMT
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For those who are interested, here's what I've found out about my manual feed  
and page ordering questions:

The question of whether manual feed can be selected on a page-by-page basis is,  
for this version of NeXTstep, at least, no.  The printing architecture just  
doesn't handle this type of thing on a page basis -- it sets the printer up for  
the "job", and then images the pages using the window server.

Page reversing *can* be controlled on a document basis, however, even if it's  
not done the same way as documented in the Adobe manual.  Basically, you  
include a number after the %%Pages: (atend) comment at the start of the  
document.  1 means the following pages are in ascending order, and should be  
reversed; -1 means the pages are in descending order, and need not be reversed;  
0 means the pages are in a special order, and shouldn't be touched.

Many thanks to those who offered suggestions and help.

--Dave Nanian, UnderWare, Inc. (dnanian@uw.com, uunet!uw!dnanian, NeXT Mail  
Preferred)