multiple pages per sheet in useless order when landscape

[Wolfgang Silbermayr]

Binary package hint: cupsys

When I print a landscape pdf file from evince and choose for example 9 pages per sheet, the pages are printed in the following order:

3 6 9
2 5 8
1 4 7

This printing order seems to be quite senseless because usually one reads from the top to the bottom instead of bottom to top. On Windows printing systems I know, the drivers usually provide the ability to choose from several print orders:
* top->bottom, left->right
* bottom->top, left->right
* top->bottom, right->left
* bottom->top, right->left
This would be the best option, but for the moment it would already be great if the order for landscape printing would be fixed.

[vinlos (vincenzo-losito)]

It's a very annoying bug which has affected us for a long time and it's still unsolved. We ask for a solution.

[Thomas Mayer (thomas303)]

I have the same error: when printing 2x2 in landscape from evince, i get the following order:

2 1
3 2

I can set another page order in the page/driver settings, but this does not produce a wanted order, which is

1 2
3 4

With 6 pages per sheet there were similar problems.

Instead, I did the following:
pdftops -q -level3 x.pdf
psnup -l -pA4 -4 x.ps| lpr

This is very slow, but it is working and produces the page order I want. First, I tried pdfnup, but this produced some errors.

This is only a workaround, i would encourage to fix the problem in cups. Maybe you have to automatically set an option like -l in psnup?

[Thomas Mayer (thomas303)]

There is a typo in my comment, i meant
2 1
4 3

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Hardy has reached end of life, and this package is not present in later releases. Closing all related bugs.