tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (04/02/91)
We have heard of a whole bunch of utilities which translate ASCII text into PostScript output suitable for printing one-up, two-up, four-up and so forth. What I want to know is, do any of these support two-up printing in SIGNATURE ORDER? That is, <Pass 1> p16 ... p1 p14 ... p3 p12 ... p5 p10 ... p7 (put paper back into tray) <Pass 2> p8 ... p9 p6 ... p11 p4 ... p13 p2 ... p15 so that the resulting two-pass output can be folded and stapled along the midline and read as a "book"? If anyone has this, let me know... otherwise I have to write it AGAIN and I *hate* writing software :-)
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (04/04/91)
In article <25321806@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: >We have heard of a whole bunch of utilities which translate ASCII text >into PostScript output suitable for printing one-up, two-up, four-up and >so forth. >What I want to know is, do any of these support two-up printing in >so that the resulting two-pass output can be folded and stapled along >the midline and read as a "book"? >If anyone has this, let me know... otherwise I have to write it AGAIN >and I *hate* writing software :-) Psxlate in Psroff 3.0 supports this. Psroff 3.0 is about to be released as soon as I get the last little bit of stuff about LJIII builtin font support back from a tester. Psxlate uses psnup to do n-up processing, and will do a number of different page sorts, and new page sorts are easy to add. The document has to conform to the document structuring convention for page reorder to work. Does psnup work on your document? Tom, if you need it right now I could mail you psxlate, but I don't want to do yet another partial posting of psroff 3.0 stuff. -- Chris Lewis, clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca or ...uunet!mitel!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis Psroff support: psroff-request@eci386.uucp, or call 613-832-0541 (Canada) **** somebody's mailer is appending .bitnet to my From: address. If you see this, please use the address in the signature, and send me a copy of the headers of the mail message with the .bitnet return address. Thanks!
ajcd@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Angus Duggan) (04/06/91)
In article <25321806@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: > We have heard of a whole bunch of utilities which translate ASCII text > into PostScript output suitable for printing one-up, two-up, four-up and > so forth. > > What I want to know is, do any of these support two-up printing in > SIGNATURE ORDER? That is, ... > so that the resulting two-pass output can be folded and stapled along > the midline and read as a "book"? > > If anyone has this, let me know... otherwise I have to write it AGAIN > and I *hate* writing software :-) I've just posted a set of utilities to alt.sources which performs this function, among others. Page selection, ordering into signatures, reversal, merging, and other functions are supported. A. -- Angus Duggan, Department of Computer Science, | I'm pink, therefore I'm Spam. University of Edinburgh, JCMB, | JANET: ajcd@uk.ac.ed.lfcs The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, | VOICE: (UK) 031 650 5126 Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland. | OR: ajcd%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk