drew@pollux.anu.oz.au (Drew Corrigan) (06/25/91)
Hi,
This is a general query to anyone out there who is familiar with Sun's
NeWSprint software and the filters that work with PreLimn.
PreLimn can be called on the command line:
pl [options] [macro options] [file] [:filter [options]] [:filter]
to process an input file and produce PostScript output which can in turn
be interpreted, run, and otherwise printed.
One of filters supplied with the NeWSprint/PreLimn package is 'postprint'.
Postprint takes a text file, wraps the appropriate headers around it and
generates a PostScript file as output. According to the manual page, one
of the options to 'postprint' is
-n number Print multiple logical pages on each piece of paper, where
number can be any positive integer. The default is 1.
Unfortunately, I do not seem to be able to get this option to work. Specify-
ing any number to this option simply results in no printed output at all. For
example, the command
pl some-text-file :postprint -n 4
produces nothing.
Using the PreLimn options --r and --e, I have captured the PostScript that
results from such a command, but upon examination, my PostScript-untrained
eye cannot see anything wrong with it.
Has anyone had experience with NeWSprint to confirm or deny that there is a
bug in the PostScript forms.ps include code used by :postprint and pl?
Thanks for your time,
Drew (drew@anucsd.anu.edu.au)
PS I know about :mpage, but my application would be better suited by
postprint and -n (if it worked).
PPS This may seem a rather esoteric question to ask, but hopefully someone
has had a chance to play with NeWSprint and PreLimn.