Print page-range using lpr

I use the extremely light-weight pdf viewer, xpdf. For some unknown reason, I cannot print pages from xpdf. A nice workaround I found was with dear old lpr which can print a range of pages thus;
lpr -P HP_LaserJet_6MP file.pdf -o page-ranges=2-5
lpstat -a # Gives the status (and names) of all the connected printers

Batch processing images in Gimp

Over the past few weeks I've had to apply a specific set of changes to a large number of images. Doing this repeatedly took a great toll on my soul and Gimp came to my soul's rescue. Take a read at this and this and help yourself.