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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
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Subject: Re: A dvi2ps that puts two A4 pages side by side
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Date: 26 Jul 90 04:40:46 GMT
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In article <4373@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, rhys@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley) writes...
>This has no doubt been asked before, but I am not a frequent reader
>of this newsgroup.  I would like to know if there exists a version of
>dvi2ps (or similar) that will print two A4 page layouts side-by-side
>on an A4 page (each scaled down to A5 size of course :-).

Tom Rokicki wrote a program called dvidvi which takes DVI files
and rearranges the files for various imposition affects,
including what you requested. It runs under Unix, but probably
could be modified for other systems (Andrew Trevorrow ported it
to VMS, but didn't do a complete job of it in that the DVI files
output do not have the "normal" VMS blocking structure; he seems
to have modified his drivers rather than changing dvidvi: sigh).
There is also a port to the IBM PC which is available from Jon
Radel (P.O.Box 2276 Reston, VA 22090. He also has a very wide
selection of other PD TeX software for the PC... send him an
envelope large enough to hold 8.5x11 paper folded in half and
sufficient postage for 12 sheets of paper to get a complete
catalog).

The Arbortext DVIlaser/PS program can also do this, but is a bit
pricey for most sites.

-dh

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