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as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

. Here I write about many things. In the past I wrote about other things but the past is past. I write code for people to play with, I write about my life on Twitter, and I write here.

On I wrote Printing reversed images onto transfer paper with OpenOffice.org, on the subject of Howtos and Linux.

I needed to print one of those “mirror” image prints onto some of that iron-on transfer paper ready to go on a flag (a LugRadio flag for What The Hack, as it happens). The instructions for the transfer paper say “select the Flip option when printing“. Windows does this; Linux doesn’t. So: how do you flip your nice OpenOffice document so that it’s backwards on the paper so it transfers nicely onto your flag (or t-shirt)? Easy workaround:

  1. Convert the document to a PDF
  2. Load the PDF in xpdf
  3. Hit the print button
  4. Change the “print command” from lpr to lpr -o mirror

That’s it. Worked fine.

Paul

Or

1. In OOo print to a file, e.g. flag.ps
2. lpr -o mirror flag.ps

HTH

sil

Paul: wish I was as clever as you :) That’s a much better way to do it…

crazy

Whatever i can't even get Windows to do this!

Clavius

Awesome, that was just what I needed. Thanks!

McGoober

Does this still work....

Seems too complicated to try

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