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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to print 1 file then when finished another file prints beside it? Post 303038726 by gull04 on Thursday 12th of September 2019 10:33:08 AM
Old 09-12-2019
Hi,

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How to print file1 first then print file2 beside it after file1 has finished printed?
You actually mean to output the first file to the printer and then to reposition the paper to the first line and print the second file on a line by line basis starting at the first free print position on the line then I think that you are asking for quite a lot.

I'm going to go with the earlier contributors to this thread and suggest that paste is your best option at the moment.

You don't say anything about the system, not too mention the printer. A 4Gb file given your example of 6 chars per line would run to roughly 8 Million pages, this is going to take some time to print. So repositioning all the pages in the right order and running through the printer would be quite a task not to mention somewhat time consuming.

It starts to get really complex if you want to print a file and then run the same paper through the printer a second time printing at potentially a different start position for each line.

Regards

Gull04
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pbmpage

pbmpage(1)						      General Commands Manual							pbmpage(1)

NAME

       pbmpage - create a one page test pattern for printing

SYNOPSIS

       pbmpage [-a4] test_pattern

DESCRIPTION

       pbmpage	generates a one page test pattern to print on a sheet of paper, for use in calibrating a printer.  The test pattern in is PBM for-
       mat.

       pbmpage produces an image intended for 600 dots per inch printer resolution.

       If you are printing on an HP PPA printer, you can convert the output of this program to a stream that you can feed to the printer with pbm-
       toppa.

       Bear  in  mind  that  when you print the test pattern, you are testing not only the printer, but any converter or driver software along the
       printing path.  Any one of these components may adjust margins, crop the image, erase edges, and such.

       If, due to addition of margins, the printer refuses to print the image because it is too big, use pnmcut to cut the right and bottom  edges
       off the test pattern until it is small enough to print.

       test_pattern is the number of the test pattern to generate, as follows.	The default is 1.

       1      A grid ruled in numbers of pixels.  The outermost rules are exactly at the edges of the paper.

       2      A vertical line segment, one pixel wide, extending 1/2" up from the exact center of the page.

       3      Two  diagonal line segments, one starting at the upper left corner of the page, the other starting from the lower left corner of the
	      page.  Both extend 1/2" toward the center of the page at 45 degrees.

OPTIONS

       -a4    Generate an image for A4 (European) paper.  Without this option, pbmpage generates an image for US standard paper (8 1/2" wide x 11"
	      high).

SEE ALSO

       pbmtoppa(1), pnmcut(1), pbm(5)

AUTHOR

       Tim Norman.  Copyright (C) 1998.  Licensed under GNU Public License

       Manual page by Bryan Henderson, May 2000.

								    01 May 2000 							pbmpage(1)
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