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From: murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: multi.ps and dvi3ps
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Date: 27 Aug 90 17:26:35 GMT
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wittig@gmdzi.UUCP (Georg Wittig) writes:
>>I contacted Ross; multi *is* public domain,
>>and is available by anonymous ftp from archive.su.oz.au (129.78.64.5)
>>in directory archive/ps_printing (along with other stuff).  It works
>>with just about any PostScript file, reducing it so as to fit any
>>reasonable number of virtual pages onto a physical page.  We find it
>>very useful here.  The distribution includes lots of documentation.
>>
>>
>>Multi is also available for ftp from
>>	sics.se (192.16.123.90)
>>
>>as archive/multi.tar.Z
>	But for me it doesn't work together with the output of dvi3ps (i.e.
>	dvi2ps version 3.1).

>	I tried the following:

>		1. concatenate in that order
>			multi.ps
>			the header created by dvi3ps until "%%End Prolog"
>			"true 1 2 multi"
>			the rest of the dvi3ps generated postscript
>			"endmulti"

>		2. concatenate in that order
>			the header created by dvi3ps until "%%End Prolog"
>			multi.ps
>			"true 1 2 multi"
>			the rest of the dvi3ps generated postscript
>			"endmulti"

>	Is this the right way to do it? Or has the dvi3ps generated header
>	to be changed?

I thought he had changed multi to where the procedure was called
"landscape" or something.  I haven't tried the new version, but the
old version seems to work fine with dvi3ps.

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