[XeTeX] print pdf from command line

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On 3/3/2008, "Volker Jordan" <v_jordan at web.de> wrote:

>Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 15:34 +0100 schrieb Andreas Matthias:
>> Volker Jordan wrote:
>>
>> > maybe this is a little bit off topic, but how can I print a pdf from the
>> > command line, especially if I want only a range of pages?
>>
>> With pdftops (xpdf) or acroread you can convert your PDF to PS and
>> specify the page range (first and last page):
>>
>> # acroread -toPostScript -start 3 -end 5 -size a4 dummy.pdf
>>
>> # pdftops -f 3 -l 5 dummy.pdf
>>
>>
>The problem is, that converting a huge range of pages takes very long
>and is very cpu intensive.

Maybe I am missing something, but why convert to PostScript at all?
Can't you print PDFs directly with CUPS? To print a page range of 4 to
6:

lp -o page ranges=4-6 my.pdf

All the best, Mark