tolboel@iesd.dk (Morten Tolboel) (03/29/89)
Wanted: two pages on one with TeX......
Does anyone know of a printerdriver for TeX that can output
two pages of TeX on one piece of paper (Post Script laser-writer).
Instead of writing two pages (of preliminary stuff) on the
laser-writer and then zoom it on a xerox-mashine it would save
LOTS of printed pages on the laser-writer if such a printerdriver
existed. Of course.... the TeX-fonts would have to be compiled
at half-size !?
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-------------------------------------!--------------------------langdon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Bruce Langdon) (03/29/89)
In article <1577@iesd.dk>, tolboel@iesd.dk (Morten Tolboel) writes: > > Wanted: two pages on one with TeX...... > > Does anyone know of a printerdriver for TeX that can output > two pages of TeX on one piece of paper (Post Script laser-writer). We do this routinely with ArborText's dvips. You do have to read the manual to discover this option. My shell script lets users type just "ptex -2r <file>" to get this. > Of course.... the TeX-fonts would have to be compiled at half-size !? !? I didn't. dvips handles the scaling, but complains repeatedly about the resulting imperfections. We don't complain about the compact output. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Langdon L-472 langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov Physics Department 14363%f@nmfecc.arpa Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA 94550 (415) 422-5444 UUCP: ..{qantel,ucdavis,pyramid,harvard,topaz}!lll-lcc!langdon
urban@spp2.uucp (Michael Urban) (03/31/89)
In article <1577@iesd.dk>, tolboel@iesd.dk (Morten Tolboel) writes: > > Wanted: two pages on one with TeX...... > Of course.... the TeX-fonts would have to be compiled at half-size !? > As Bruce Langdon pointed out, a sufficiently clever PostScript DVI processor can cause the page to be scaled however you like. To clarify one point, when you print pages two-up on 8.5x11-inch paper, you are not scaling the font by half; half-scale fonts would be useful for printing four-up. Instead, you want to scale by a factor of 5.5/8.5. The resulting page images cannot quite visually represent a full page, however, since the proportions of a half-page are different from those of a full page. The result is that the vertical (typically bottom) margin of the half-page image will be proportionally larger than that of a full page. Or you can make the vertical margin correct but make the horizontal margin narrower, by using a different scaling factor. Consequently, if you intend that the two-up pages be visually correct, rather than merely useful as compact `preview' copy, you must adjust your margins in your TeX source code to account for all of this. If you intend that the text appear at full size (e.g., 10 truept), further magnification issues may come into play. European DIN A- and B- series paper (such as A4 paper) has a useful proportion of \sqrt{2}:1, so that when folded in half, the proportions remain the same (and produce the next standard sheet in the series; A5 is A4 folded in half). An enviable situation. Mike Urban ...!trwspp!spp2!urban "You're in a maze of twisty UUCP connections, all alike"
smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith) (04/01/89)
In article <1707@spp2.UUCP> urban@spp2.UUCP (Michael Urban) writes: >In article <1577@iesd.dk>, tolboel@iesd.dk (Morten Tolboel) writes: >> >> Wanted: two pages on one with TeX...... >> Of course.... the TeX-fonts would have to be compiled at half-size !? >As Bruce Langdon pointed out, a sufficiently clever PostScript >DVI processor can cause the page to be scaled however you like. Is there such a "sufficiently clever PostScript DVI processor" that runs on UNIX machines available? If so, where? What other features such as \specials for PostScript files and support of resident PostScript fonts does it have? Since I read this newsgroup frequently and this is probably of interest to many others, please post responses. Thanks for any and all info. Dan ========================================================================= J. Daniel Smith Internet: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu Michigan State University BITNET: smithdan@msuegr What we have to learn to do we learn by doing. - Aristotle =========================================================================
dougcc@csv.viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller) (04/04/89)
In article <1707@spp2.UUCP>, urban@spp2.uucp (Michael Urban) writes: > To clarify one point, when you print pages two-up on 8.5x11-inch > paper, ... > The resulting page images cannot quite visually represent > a full page, however, since the proportions of a half-page are > different from those of a full page. (snigger) > European DIN A- and B- series paper (such as A4 paper) has a useful > proportion of \sqrt{2}:1, so that when folded in half, the proportions > remain the same (and produce the next standard sheet in the series; A5 > is A4 folded in half). An enviable situation. Why envy? Use A4! Everybody else does!!