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In article <1990Aug5.231903.6165@watdragon.waterloo.edu> cjroehrig@poppy.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Roehrig) writes:
> In article <14709@unix.SRI.COM> felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND) writes:
> >I am looking for a tool to separate odd and even page from a PS file.
> >At the end I want to be able to print double sided.
> >

> There is a shell script to do this in the NeXT ftp site at 
> sonata.cc.purdue.edu under /pub/next/source called pstools.  
> It creates two .ps files, one containing odd pages and one 
> containing even pages. However, I have had problems getting 
> it to work on complicated documents.  (When most of the BuzzNUG 
> files (NeXT newsletters produced by FrameMaker) are run through 
> it, the resulting two files end up generating syntax errors.)  
> It may work ok for simple things, though.

I think I have tried this program. It makes a fairly strong assumption that the
%%Page: or %%Pages: field is correct, and check the last digit to see if it is
an even or odd number.

Unfortunately, the ps file I want to parse do not have these fields set up right.

> If anyone knows of a better program, I'd like to hear about it, too.

Me too of course.


> Chris Roehrig   (croehrig@audiolab.UWaterloo.ca)
> Audio Research Group
> University of Waterloo, Canada
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