Does the AIX standard print queuing software allow print jobs to be
restarted at a specific page? If so, how?

If not, are there third-party packages that support this functionality?
I don't mean user applications like Adobe Acrobat or a word processor
that allows you to print, say, from page 4 on, but rather a print queue
control.

Thanks.

tkevans@tkevans.com wrote:
> Does the AIX standard print queuing software allow print jobs to be
> restarted at a specific page? If so, how?
>
> If not, are there third-party packages that support this functionality?
> I don't mean user applications like Adobe Acrobat or a word processor
> that allows you to print, say, from page 4 on, but rather a print queue
> control.
>
> Thanks.

The "qprt" command offers a flag (-g) that allows you to start from a
specific page number. However, please note that this may not be the
page number you expect. I'm not sure if it reads the formfeeds in the
text file, or if it counts the number of lines based on your printer
queue LPP setting. You can test it out and see.

HTH

Steve

>> Does the AIX standard print queuing software allow print jobs to be
>> restarted at a specific page? If so, how?

> The "qprt" command offers a flag (-g) that allows you to start from a
> specific page number. However, please note that this may not be the
> page number you expect. I'm not sure if it reads the formfeeds in the
> text file, or if it counts the number of lines based on your printer
> queue LPP setting. You can test it out and see.

The pr [+page] command also starts a job at a specific page but has similar
limitations of what exactly constitutes a page. The better way of doing
this is preventing a queue from going DOWN during the sending of the print
job so that you don't have to try to restart and guess at the starting page
number.

Best regards,
Paul