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Article #6609Re: I can put 2 pages on a sheet, but how to blow up a page onto 4 sheets?
From: Daniel E. White (F2C)
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:41
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:41
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In article <1993Jan8.082540.22748@cv.ruu.nl>, ger@cv.ruu.nl (Ger Timmens) writes:
|> In <PRZEMEK.93Jan7123332@rrdstrad.nist.gov> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
|>
|> >Hello!
|> >
|> >I would like to be able to blow up a complicated drawing by printing
|> >four quadrants of it on separate letter-size sheets and pasting them
|> >together. Does anyone have a simple way of doing it?
|> >
|> >I have several programs that do the reverse operation (put two pages
|> >of text on a single sheet), but they don't seem to be able to do the
|> >reverse operation; the FAQ did not seem to contain this either. I
|> >expect that this may as simple as appending four simple coordinate
|> >transformation before four copies of the original file, but I am not a
|> >Postscript expert and before I write a filter to do it myself I thought
|> >I'd ask if more knowledgeable folks did it before me.
|>
|> Look for the program 'poster', use archie or xarchie to locate it. If
|> you can't find it I can mail you the sources (about 10K).
|>
|> From the source code:
|>
|> #
|> # poster.c - a generic PS scaling program
|> # This program outputs a PostScript page to a given size,
|> # create tiles if necessary. Each tile will be 7.5" by 10" with crop marks.
|> #
|>
|> I've made several 'door-posters' using poster.
|>
If it is that small, post it. An archie run on "archie -s poster"
produces a large and confusing output (at least from my machine)
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!netnews!3d2c.jhuapl.edu!ygor From: ygor@3d2c.jhuapl.edu (Daniel E. White (F2C)) Subject: Re: I can put 2 pages on a sheet, but how to blow up a page onto 4 sheets? Message-ID: <C0JFCt.3oB@netnews.jhuapl.edu> Sender: usenet@netnews.jhuapl.edu Organization: Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab References: <PRZEMEK.93Jan7123332@rrdstrad.nist.gov> <1993Jan8.082540.22748@cv.ruu.nl> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:41:16 GMT Lines: 41