Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: A dvi2ps that puts two A4 pages side by side Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 90 09:09:56 GMT References: <7935@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 36 In-reply-to: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu's message of 26 Jul 90 04:40:46 GMT In article <7935@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) 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, Rokicki's program does some clever things, but I find it a lot easier and cleaner to take the PostScript output from dvi to PS, and pipe it through one of the programs that manipulates arbitrary PostScript files in the way requested. Why stop at 2 up? try 6 up, 4 up, 8 up, 16 up.... I use two programs ; `mpage' (posted in comp.sources.misc vol 9), which is written in C, and is fairly portable; and `up' which is a lot more configurable but is written in Perl (which you may not have yet). Contact jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu for copies (and presumably ftp from that site). Either program is likely to foul up on the `traditional' dvi2ps. anyone still using the original program should ditch it immediately and get dvitops, dvi3ps or dvips. dvips and mpage dont mix as delivered out of the shrink wrapping, but Tom Rokicki tells me that is mpage's fault. dvitops works a treat with either program sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)