gail@esosun.UUCP (Gail F Matthews) (01/20/89)
NB: I don't know anything about postscript! I have two files: one containing some text, the other containing the output from psplot. How do I get the text printed on the same page with the psplot output? Attempts at combining enscript output with the psplot output have been stunningly unsuccessful (I get two pages or none at all). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Gail Matthews esosun!gail@seismo.css.gov gail%esosun.css.gov@seismo.css.gov (619) 458-2789
charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) (01/21/89)
In article <311@esosun.UUCP> gail@esosun.UUCP (Gail F Matthews) writes: > I have two files: one containing some text, the other containing the > output from psplot. How do I get the text printed on the same page > with the psplot output? Suppose the file containing the text is foo.txt, and the file containing the output from psplot is bar.ps. Run foo.txt through enscript making foo.ps, e.g., enscript -fHelvetica12 -B -p foo.ps foo.txt Now patching together the PostScript files and sending them to the printer gets them printed. The only problem is that both foo.ps and bar.ps contain page eject commands -- the PostScript "showpage" operator. That must be stripped out of one of the files with an editor. For example sed "s/showpage//" bar.ps | cat - foo.ps | lpr does the job, assuming you have a UNIX system. If not the principle is the same, patch together the files removing the showpage from one.
jim@nih-csl.UUCP (jim sullivan) (01/23/89)
In article <311@esosun.UUCP> gail@esosun.UUCP (Gail F Matthews) writes: >NB: I don't know anything about postscript! >I have two files: one containing some text, the other containing the >output from psplot. How do I get the text printed on the same page >with the psplot output? Attempts at combining enscript output with >the psplot output have been stunningly unsuccessful (I get two pages >or none at all). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Look for formfeed characters in the enscript output. These are ascii character 10. Remove these (there should be only one), then merge the psplot file. If this dosen't work, you could try simply taking the page from the one output and putting it in the paper tray and letting the other output write overtop of it. Good Luck, Jim jim@nih-csl.dcrt.nih.gov
jim@nih-csl.UUCP (jim sullivan) (01/23/89)
In article <890@nih-csl.UUCP> jim@nih-csl.UUCP (jim sullivan) writes: >In article <311@esosun.UUCP> gail@esosun.UUCP (Gail F Matthews) writes: >>NB: I don't know anything about postscript! >>I have two files: one containing some text, the other containing the >>output from psplot. How do I get the text printed on the same page >>with the psplot output? Attempts at combining enscript output with >>the psplot output have been stunningly unsuccessful (I get two pages >>or none at all). Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Look for formfeed characters in the enscript output. These are > ascii character 10. Oops! Not ascii character 10 but the word 'showpage'. Remove these (there should be only one), > then merge the psplot file. If this dosen't work, you could > try simply taking the page from the one output and putting > it in the paper tray and letting the other output write > overtop of it. > > Good Luck, > Jim > jim@nih-csl.dcrt.nih.gov Sorry, early monday morning you know. ---Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . .