day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) (06/05/88)
You may remember that a while back, denise@cwi.nl (Denise L. Draper) posted a program called pshalf, which would print a PostScript file two-up, that is, in landscape mode side by side at about half size. I have a burning need for the general case. I want to print many pages on a sheet, non-rotated. I'd like to be able to print them in pairs, with boxes around them, like this: +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ | | | 1| |2 | | 3| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ |4 | | 5| |6 | | 7| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ Layout designers like to look at a book this way. It would be great if there were the following parameters that could be tweaked: ax ay offset of upper-left of useful part of each page in source ps file bx by size of useful part on each page c scale factor (multiplied times [bx,by] to make final size of each page) d number of pages per row e number of pages per column f distance in x from odd to even page g distance in x from even to odd page h distance in y to next row i rotate or not j leave first page slot blank or not k box around each page or not l linewidth for k Has anyone written such a program? I would gladly pay money for it! --dave yost
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (06/06/88)
In article <418@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes: > >Has anyone written such a program? I would gladly pay money for it! > Oh yeah ? How much ? -- "Live by the lawn dart, die by the lawn dart." richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {decwrl!mejac, rutgers!marque}!gryphon!richard
day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) (06/14/88)
In article <418@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes: >I want to print many pages on a sheet, non-rotated. I'd like to >be able to print them in pairs, with boxes around them, like this: > +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ > | | | 1| |2 | | 3| > | | | | | | | | > | | | | | | | | > +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ etc., etc. I just wrote this program. I'm calling it "psstep". It works with ditroff-psdit output, and I'm testing it now with other PostScript files. I hope to post it soon when it has settled down. --dave yost