Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!kluge!root!news From: news@root.fiu.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: very naive question Message-ID: <845@kluge.fiu.edu> Date: 8 Jun 90 01:17:11 GMT References: Sender: news@kluge.fiu.edu Organization: Florida International University, Miami Lines: 49 In article momma@is.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma) writes: > >Here I have a Postscript file that would produce some 200 pages of >output. Since it consists basically of plain text in an average >typesize of 11 or 12 pt, I would be perfectly happy with a reduced >printout, two text pages on one paper page (rotated 90 degrees). That >would still be readable without too much eye strain, and would help >to save some paper. > >Is there a way (simple or complicated) how this can be achieved >without going back to the program that created the Postscript file >(which is not available here) ? > The following response appeared to a similar question: ||Article 298 of comp.lang.postscript: ||Path: kluge!uflorida!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy ||>From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) ||Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript ||Subject: Re: Wanted: Program to compress PS stream (6 pages to 1) ||Message-ID: <1990May17.141040.17600@phri.nyu.edu> ||Date: 17 May 90 14:10:40 GMT ||References: <1715@ks.UUCP> ||Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) ||Distribution: usa ||Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City ||Lines: 20 || ||In article <1715@ks.UUCP> toby@ibmarc.uucp (Tobin J. Lehman) writes: ||> Does anyone know of a program which will take a postscript stream (of ||> pages) and produce a "compressed" form, where six logical pages appear ||> on a single physical page? || || Ftp to goober.phri.nyu.edu and grab ~ftp/pub/misc/psnup.tar.Z. It ||does almost exactly what you want; takes a PS file and prints it n-up, ||where n is 2, 4, 8, or 16. Sorry, no 6-up. Non-powers-of-2-up starts to ||get tricky, since the page aspect ratios don't work out right. Ned ||Batchelder wrote psnup, I just repackaged it a little. || || I have also heard of something called "Save A Tree" which prints ||mac text files 2-up or 4-up. I've never used it, but is sounds good. ||According to the information I have, you can grab ~ftp/pub/SaveATree.hqx ||from thylacine.cs.wisc.edu (128.105.1.208) ||-- ||Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute ||455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ||roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy ||"Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"