c60a-2di@e260-2b.berkeley.edu (The Cybermat Rider) (01/02/89)
I've written a Perl script that takes a Postscript file generated from a .dvi file via dvi2ps and splits it into two files containing odd- and even-numbered pages respectively. This is to facilitate printing double-sided pages on a LaserWriter. However, I've found that printing the split-files is a REAL headache. It occasionally works well, but often enough, I either get NOTHING AT ALL or just 1 page! (Before anyone mentions it, the Postscript prolog and trailer from the original are present in each split-file. Does anyone know how to split a TeX file into odd and even pages (a) at the Postscript level and/or (b) at the DVI level? (I'm not asking how to to it at the TeX level coz I often don't have access to the document sources.) Better still, does anyone have any code that does this? Thanks very much in advance for any info! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Ho a.k.a. The Cybermat Rider University of California, Berkeley c60a-2di@web.berkeley.edu Disclaimer: Nobody takes me seriously, so is it really necessary?
mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) (01/03/89)
Actually this is not a trivial program (but not *that* hard either). You can get from the Clarkson archive 2 things that will do what you want. if you mail the below message to the archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu it will give you what you want. help index send tex-programs dvidvi send tex-style select.dvi path c60a-2di@e260-2b.berkeley.edu The stuff is also available via anonymous ftp. -- Michael DeCorte // (315)265-2439 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) (01/03/89)
In article <18669@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-2di@e260-2b.berkeley.edu (The Cybermat Rider) writes: >... >Does anyone know how to split a TeX file into odd and even pages (a) at the >Postscript level and/or (b) at the DVI level? ... At the dvi-level this is rather easy: the dvi2ps program has a piece of code that is easy to find and which is used to handle the -f and -t options (from some page or to some page). This is easily extended to select even or odd numbered pages. You could add options to dvi2ps to do that, so it may be of more general use too. Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------
drh@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Dave Hanson) (01/03/89)
In article <18669@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-2di@e260-2b.berkeley.edu (The Cybermat Rider) writes: > >Does anyone know how to split a TeX file into odd and even pages (a) at the >Postscript level and/or (b) at the DVI level? i have a program, dvipages, that extracts pages (perhaps with repeats) from a .dvi file and generates a new .dvi file. it's used for doing even/odd extraction, etc. a shar(1) file containing dvipages.c and dvipages.1 is available as pub/dvipages.shar for anonymous ftp from princeton.edu. i can also mail a copy if necessary. dave hanson
piet@ruuinf (Piet van Oostrum) (01/03/89)
In article <18669@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, c60a-2di@e260-2b (The Cybermat Rider) writes:
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`Does anyone know how to split a TeX file into odd and even pages (a) at the
`Postscript level and/or (b) at the DVI level? (I'm not asking how to to it
`at the TeX level coz I often don't have access to the document sources.)
`Better still, does anyone have any code that does this?
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There is a program 'dviselect' on the Unix TeX tape that allows you to
select pages from a dvi file. It wouldn't be hard to make an option to
select only the even or the odd ones, in case you don't want to type in
alll the numbers.
My own dvi2ps program also has the option of only printing selected pages,
but then again, you have to specify them all (also easy to enhance).
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