boris@ (Boris Goldowsky) (01/21/89)
I would like to make a little booklet (actually, for addresses) out of sheets of paper folded into eighths. It seems that it ought to be easy enought to write a postscript program that would take 16 normal size pages (generated by TeX or something like that) and transform them into 2 (front & back) pages; it would involve shrinking them, turning them sideways (some left and some right), then moving them into the correct positions on the two pages. If anyone has a program that does anything similar, I would be most interested in seeing it, since I'm going to have to learn all the PostScript I need to write this. Would you mail me a copy? You can also mail me if you're interested in seeing what I come up with. Boris
paul@ardent.UUCP (Paul Ausick) (01/22/89)
> > I would like to make a little booklet (actually, for addresses) out of > sheets of paper folded into eighths. It seems that it ought to be > easy enought to write a postscript program that would take 16 normal > size pages (generated by TeX or something like that) and transform > them into 2 (front & back) pages; it would involve shrinking them, > turning them sideways (some left and some right), then moving them > into the correct positions on the two pages. > > If anyone has a program that does anything similar, I would be most > interested in seeing it, since I'm going to have to learn all the > PostScript I need to write this. Would you mail me a copy? You can > also mail me if you're interested in seeing what I come up with. I downloaded a Mac program from Compuserve that might do this. It's called 'PocketBookWriter 1.2' and is shareware. I've only tried it with their included document, but it is pretty nifty. It took a 12-page document, rotated it, sorted the pages so they'd print on the proper sheet, shrunk the pages so two reduced pages fit on a single, rotatted 8.5x11 sheet, and printed. For the 12-pager, it printed 2 & 11, 4 & 9, and 6 & 7 on separate sheets; then I ran to the printer and put the same 3 sheets back in the order in which they came out the first time, ran back to the Mac and printed the remaining pages, 1 & 12, 2 & 10, and 5 & 8. Pretty spiffy. I'm not sure whether it'll do the pseudo-octavo size you want, but I bet it would. Company is : Domino Arts, 907 Norwood Drive, Norwalk, Iowa 50211. $35 shareware. -- /Paul Ausick Ardent Computer Corporation 880 West Maude Ave. uucp: uunet!ardent!paul Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408/732-0400