wittig@gmdzi.UUCP (Georg Wittig) (08/27/90)
>Archive-name: multi/31-Jul-90 >Original-posting-by: mark@seti.inria.fr (james mark @) >Original-subject: Re: A dvi2ps that puts two A4 pages side by side >Archive-site: archive.su.oz.au [128.250.27.2] >Archive-directory: /archive/ps_printing >Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) > >I contacted Ross; multi *is* public domain, >and is available by anonymous ftp from archive.su.oz.au (129.78.64.5) >in directory archive/ps_printing (along with other stuff). It works >with just about any PostScript file, reducing it so as to fit any >reasonable number of virtual pages onto a physical page. We find it >very useful here. The distribution includes lots of documentation. > > >Multi is also available for ftp from > sics.se (192.16.123.90) > >as archive/multi.tar.Z But for me it doesn't work together with the output of dvi3ps (i.e. dvi2ps version 3.1). I tried the following: 1. concatenate in that order multi.ps the header created by dvi3ps until "%%End Prolog" "true 1 2 multi" the rest of the dvi3ps generated postscript "endmulti" 2. concatenate in that order the header created by dvi3ps until "%%End Prolog" multi.ps "true 1 2 multi" the rest of the dvi3ps generated postscript "endmulti" Is this the right way to do it? Or has the dvi3ps generated header to be changed? Thanks for any help! -- Georg Wittig GMD-Z1.IT | wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de | "Freedom's just another word P.O. Box 1240 | wittig@zi.gmd.dbp.de | for nothing left to lose" D-5205 St. Augustin 1 | | (Kris Kristofferson) West Germany | (+49) 2241 14-2294 |
murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) (08/28/90)
wittig@gmdzi.UUCP (Georg Wittig) writes: >>I contacted Ross; multi *is* public domain, >>and is available by anonymous ftp from archive.su.oz.au (129.78.64.5) >>in directory archive/ps_printing (along with other stuff). It works >>with just about any PostScript file, reducing it so as to fit any >>reasonable number of virtual pages onto a physical page. We find it >>very useful here. The distribution includes lots of documentation. >> >> >>Multi is also available for ftp from >> sics.se (192.16.123.90) >> >>as archive/multi.tar.Z > But for me it doesn't work together with the output of dvi3ps (i.e. > dvi2ps version 3.1). > I tried the following: > 1. concatenate in that order > multi.ps > the header created by dvi3ps until "%%End Prolog" > "true 1 2 multi" > the rest of the dvi3ps generated postscript > "endmulti" > 2. concatenate in that order > the header created by dvi3ps until "%%End Prolog" > multi.ps > "true 1 2 multi" > the rest of the dvi3ps generated postscript > "endmulti" > Is this the right way to do it? Or has the dvi3ps generated header > to be changed? I thought he had changed multi to where the procedure was called "landscape" or something. I haven't tried the new version, but the old version seems to work fine with dvi3ps. --chet--
NEUMANN@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at (Gustaf Neumann) (08/28/90)
> But for me it doesn't work together with the output of dvi3ps (i.e. > dvi2ps version 3.1). > ... The shell-script below should clarify the order in which the files should be concatenated: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # call multi either with a commandline argument (the postscriptfile), or # use it in a pipe. # # typical usage: dvips -f somedvifile | multi | lpr # # description of available layout options is in $MULTI # # gustaf neumann, 2.Aug. 1990 MULTI=/usr/local/lib/tex/ps/multi.ps (cat $MULTI; echo "true 1 2 false multi"; cat $1; echo "endmulti" ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As you see from the comment i use dvips (5.31), which has virtual font support and is capable to use Postscript fonts. When dvifiles with cmr fonts are sent through multi the output is rather bad (bitmap scaling). When you use in your **TeX documents postscript fonts (such as helveticva) instead and you apply multi the output is really neat. Up to my experience multi works with about any postscriptfile (also troff output). I am pretty sure it works with dvi2ps as well. -gustaf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gustaf Neumann neumann@dec4.wu-wien.ac.at, neumann@awiwuw11.bitnet Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 (222) 347-541 x533 Fax 347-555