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Re: Printing Even or Odd Pages using dvips

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From: Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:37
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In article <8519@news.duke.edu> bryant@math.duke.edu (Robert Bryant) writes:

???
???           I know that this has come up before, but I couldn't find any mention of  
???   it in the FAQ on nova and couldn't remember what the resolution of the problem  
???   was. 
???           I need to be able to print just the even or the odd pages of a long  
???   dvi file (so that I can Xerox double-sided copies) and this option does not  
???   seem to be available in dvips.  Is there a header file that I can load which  
???   will redefine the showpage command so that it only prints the even or odd  
???   pages?


Tom Rokicki has produced a program called dvi2dvi which will convert
the dvi-file appropriately. Get it from labrea.stanford.edu. 

Another good program which can do this directly on postscript output
is quarto -- available on sonata (and maybe orst). 

--
Hardy 
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