Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!ccavax!tinkelman From: tinkelman@ccavax.camb.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: even and odd page separator. Message-ID: <30085.26bff471@ccavax.camb.com> Date: 8 Aug 90 15:16:00 GMT References: <14709@unix.SRI.COM> <1990Aug5.231903.6165@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc. Lines: 21 In article <14709@unix.SRI.COM> felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND) writes: >I am looking for a tool to separate odd and even page from a PS file. There have been several followups to this. However, I am surprised that none have suggested what I think is a fairly simple approach, though one with a few drawbacks. It is trivial to write a showpage replacement that `eats' every other page. Say you write two, one that eats even pages and one that eats odd pages. Then you just send the file to the printer twice, in each job prefixing the file with one of these two showpage replacements. The cost of this approach is clear - it takes twice as long to print the document. However, it works on (almost) *any* postscript file, no matter how badly structured. I haven't written such a program. I feel someone must have. If nobody posts such a program over the next week, and you want it, send me mail and I'll do it. -- Bob Tinkelman, Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc., 212-425-5830 bob@camb.com or ...!{uupsi,uunet}!camb.com!bob