admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Khalid Sattar) (09/20/90)
I have "up" which allow n up pages to be printed on a single sheet. I version I have mentions that it currently does not work with dvips. Has anyone got it working with dvips?. I tried emailing the author directly but got no response. -- Khalid Sattar JANET : K.Sattar@uk.ac.exeter.cs Computer Science Dept. UUCP : K.Sattar@expya.uucp University of Exeter INTERNET : K.Sattar@cs.exeter.ac.uk Exeter, UK. Tel : +44 392 264062
jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) (09/22/90)
In article <ADMIN.90Sep20171957@expya.cs.exeter.ac.uk> admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Khalid Sattar) writes: >I have "up" which allow n up pages to be printed on a single sheet. I >version I have mentions that it currently does not work with dvips. >Has anyone got it working with dvips?. I tried emailing the author >directly but got no response. Ah, you've hit my e-mail black hole! Somewhere that message is filed, in among 400K of "get back to" messages. We've been a bit busy replacing all of our machines in time for the new quarter, and I haven't hacked on Up in a long time (there are several problems, which taken together suggest a complete redesign). These two facts combine to create a "gee, I'll get back to him real soon". To get it to work correctly with dvips requires either fixing the way that dvips writes its end-of-page code (which is in the patch on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu), or fixing up to do its work inside the redefined showpage instead of physically between pages. Since I wrote this package, I've seen a lot of *bad* PostScript that claims to follow the DSC. This just shows how vague that document is. Tomas' output is *not* bad, it just does something I don't like (and that my code doesn't catch :-)). -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)
fj@iesd.auc.dk (Frank Jensen) (09/23/90)
In article <JGREELY.90Sep21134650@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: In article <ADMIN.90Sep20171957@expya.cs.exeter.ac.uk> admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Khalid Sattar) writes: >I have "up" which allow n up pages to be printed on a single sheet. I >version I have mentions that it currently does not work with dvips. >Has anyone got it working with dvips?. I tried emailing the author >directly but got no response. ..... To get it to work correctly with dvips requires either fixing the way that dvips writes its end-of-page code (which is in the patch on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu), or fixing up to do its work inside the redefined showpage instead of physically between pages. Actually, dvips has changed a good deal since then (it is currently up to version 5.38 -- at least last time I looked). The current version sets up the TeX convention for scaling and orientation at the beginning of each page - it does not assume that this graphics state be preserved from page to page. So, the conclusion is: Yes, up works with dvips! (I'm using both Tom's dvips and your up and parr programs.) ..... -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely) --- Frank Jensen, fj@iesd.auc.dk Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Aalborg University DENMARK