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Article #121Re: Putting two A5 pages on one A4, from dvitps output
From: Afzal Ballim
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 13:30
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 13:30
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To those of you who mailed me solutions, I thank you all. The final solution I adopted was one brought on by laziness. I could have taken the "soft" option, and reformatted the LaTeX file by adjusting the book style to use the entire of the A4 page (in 12pt) and then using (for example) a conbination of "dvidvi" and "psnup -2" to get the intended result. This, however, would have reduced 12pt to something like 8.4pt which was not acceptable to me (I wanted 10pt). So, the solution I adopted was the following: 1) produce conforming postscript from the dvi file, by dvitps -C src >trg.ps 2) transform the postscript file into "signature" format using psbook -s4 trg.ps trg-s.ps which gives a page ordering of 4,1,2,3 3) use pstops to print this by pstops -w21cm -h29.7cm 2:OL@1(29.5cm,-5.9cm)+1L@1(29.5cm,15.2cm) trg-s.ps > trg-fin.ps And, heh presto! "psbook" and "pstops" are part of the "psutils" package, which may be found at colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk (Europe) guardian.cs.psu.edu (US) among others. If anyone would like copies of my modified LaTeX "book" style which produces the correct format for the above transformations, they can contact me at the below address. Again, thanks all. -- Afzal Ballim |BITNET,EARN,MHS,X.400: afzal@divsun.unige.ch ISSCO, University of Geneva |UUCP: mcsun!divsun.unige.ch!afzal 54 route des Acacias |JANET: afzal%divsun.unige.ch@uk.ac.ean-relay CH-1227 GENEVA,Switzerland |CSNET,ARPA: afzal%divsun.unige.ch@relay.cs.net
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!chx400!news.unige.ch!divsun.unige.ch!afzal From: afzal@divsun.unige.ch (Afzal Ballim) Subject: Re: Putting two A5 pages on one A4, from dvitps output Message-ID: <1992Nov3.133023.19506@news.unige.ch> Keywords: The Solution Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch Reply-To: afzal@divsun.unige.ch Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland References: <1992Nov2.164606.12932@news.unige.ch> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 13:30:23 GMT Lines: 45