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In article <BOB.90Oct30100901@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
|Some PostScript printers place their output face-down in the collector
|bin, and some place it face-up.

|Adobe's TranScript package includes a program called "psrev" that can
|take any format-conformant PostScript document and (re-)reverse it, or
|even select page ranges for printing.  I've looked through the sources
|of psroff, psf, a2ps, and groff and found nothing that looks
|promising.  It's probably a quick hack (likely a Perl one-liner :-)
|and one of those wheels that shouldn't be reinvented.

But you don't want to use the quick hack unless you can help it (often
an extreme memory hog).

|Has anyone written a freely available PostScript page reverser?

Yup.  Psroff of course - why did you miss it?

The psxlate utility will reverse pages provided that the document uses
the document formatting conventions at level 1 or better.  Psxlate
is intended to be sort of a start to part of a generalized spooler for
postscript.  There are stubs in it for different kinds of collating.
Psxlate has the advantage of not limiting the size of your document
(well, disk limited not memory limited).
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