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From: teege@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Gunnar Teege)
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Subject: Re: A dvi2ps that puts two A4 pages side by side
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Date: 31 Jul 90 15:43:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk's message of 27 Jul 90 09:09:56 GMT

In article <SPQR.90Jul27100956@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes:

      >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 :-).
   I use two programs ; `mpage' (posted in comp.sources.misc vol 9),
   ...

I'm using mpage in combination with dvitps by S.v.Bechtolsheim. The
problem was, that the scaling down done by Postscript made the smaller
fonts look not very nice. So I generated all the fonts scaled down by
0.707... with metafont. It is possible to call dvitps in a way that it
uses those fonts without changing the scale, so that the output can be
scaled by mpage. The call is
  dvitps -q -m  707 -C -A <dir with special fonts scaled by 0.707> \
  -Y 1.55 -X 1.55 <dvi-file> | mpage -s -b -A -2 -P
(we have Version 2.16 of dvitps; changed to produce A4 output as default)
This gives excellent results even on 300dpi printers

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