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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: side-by-side (landscape) for ditroff
Summary: You want psnup
Keywords: ditroff, PostScript, landscape
Message-ID: <3848@phri.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 89 13:28:33 GMT
References: <520@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <520@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
> I would like to use troff and print 2 pages side-by-side (landscape mode)
> on 8.5 by 11-inch paper.  This would make it easier to see how the final
> copy will look and would also help in generating even page bottoms.

	This should be on the "most frequently asked questions" list.  What
you need is "psnup" which was written by Ned Batchelder at U. Penn (I think
he's at DEC now).  It allows you to take any conforming ps file and render
it in N-up mode, where N can be 2, 4, 8, or 16.  We use it a lot, typically
something like "ptroff -t | psnup | lpr".  I find that normal troff output
(i.e. 10-pt Times) is a bit hard to read at the reduced size, but stuff
done in Courier is just fine.  I usually print RFCs that way.  This is on a
300 dpi Apple LaserWriter.

	I think it was on the info-postscript mailing list years ago; you
should be able to find it in the archives.  If not, I can mail it to
people.  The shar file is about 20k.
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