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Printing feature wanted

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From: James B. Harold
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 13:59
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  I'm wondering if anybody has seen a certain printing
feature in a Win 3 app.  When I was working on a NeXT
a couple of years ago, it had an interesting option
in the "page layout" menu.  You could ask it to print
more then one text page on a physical page.  So, for
instance, you could print 2 pages side-by-side (in
a landscape orientation), each 5.5x4 inches, or 4
 with each a quarter page size, etc.  It would do
all the scaling for you, of course.  It was a nice
way to print tons of stuff (source code, say) without
wasting too much paper (until the font became too 
small to be readable).  Has anybody seen an app with
this feature for Windows?  Presumably it wouldn't 
work well without font scaling (Postscript, ATM,etc).
But then, more and more people seem to have at 
least ATM.  And even Windows will be able to scale
fonts soon...any year now.  Right? :-)

       James Harold
       harold@lpf.umd.edu
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