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Re: Printing Postscript files 2 to a page

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From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:01
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In article <1jp9upINNn5c@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> garity@MATH.ORST.EDU (Dennis Garity) writes:
> On the Sun part of our system, we have a command, psnup,
> which takes a postscript file consisting of many pages
> and prints it 2, 4, or 8 pages to one page.

psnup comes with NeXT computers along with pslpr, pscat, enscript and other ps utilities.
they have man pages and they seem to work.
there is also a nice utility on the archives named quarto for this sort of thing.

I agree it would be nice if Preview would let you change the layout this way.

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Subject: Re: Printing Postscript files 2 to a page
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