momma@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma) (06/07/90)
Apologies, if this is not the appropriate place to ask.
Here I have a Postscript file that would produce some 200 pages of
output. Since it consists basically of plain text in an average
typesize of 11 or 12 pt, I would be perfectly happy with a reduced
printout, two text pages on one paper page (rotated 90 degrees). That
would still be readable without too much eye strain, and would help
to save some paper.
Is there a way (simple or complicated) how this can be achieved
without going back to the program that created the Postscript file
(which is not available here) ?
Thanks for your help in advance.
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In article <MOMMA.90Jun7105942@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> momma@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma) writes: > >Here I have a Postscript file that would produce some 200 pages of >output. Since it consists basically of plain text in an average >typesize of 11 or 12 pt, I would be perfectly happy with a reduced >printout, two text pages on one paper page (rotated 90 degrees). That >would still be readable without too much eye strain, and would help >to save some paper. > >Is there a way (simple or complicated) how this can be achieved >without going back to the program that created the Postscript file >(which is not available here) ? > The following response appeared to a similar question: ||Article 298 of comp.lang.postscript: ||Path: kluge!uflorida!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy ||>From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) ||Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript ||Subject: Re: Wanted: Program to compress PS stream (6 pages to 1) ||Message-ID: <1990May17.141040.17600@phri.nyu.edu> ||Date: 17 May 90 14:10:40 GMT ||References: <1715@ks.UUCP> ||Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) ||Distribution: usa ||Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City ||Lines: 20 || ||In article <1715@ks.UUCP> toby@ibmarc.uucp (Tobin J. Lehman) writes: ||> Does anyone know of a program which will take a postscript stream (of ||> pages) and produce a "compressed" form, where six logical pages appear ||> on a single physical page? || || Ftp to goober.phri.nyu.edu and grab ~ftp/pub/misc/psnup.tar.Z. It ||does almost exactly what you want; takes a PS file and prints it n-up, ||where n is 2, 4, 8, or 16. Sorry, no 6-up. Non-powers-of-2-up starts to ||get tricky, since the page aspect ratios don't work out right. Ned ||Batchelder wrote psnup, I just repackaged it a little. || || I have also heard of something called "Save A Tree" which prints ||mac text files 2-up or 4-up. I've never used it, but is sounds good. ||According to the information I have, you can grab ~ftp/pub/SaveATree.hqx ||from thylacine.cs.wisc.edu (128.105.1.208) ||-- ||Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute ||455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ||roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy ||"Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"