Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: up - does it work with dvips? Message-ID: Date: 21 Sep 90 17:46:50 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 25 In-reply-to: admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk's message of 20 Sep 90 16:19:57 GMT In article admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Khalid Sattar) writes: >I have "up" which allow n up pages to be printed on a single sheet. I >version I have mentions that it currently does not work with dvips. >Has anyone got it working with dvips?. I tried emailing the author >directly but got no response. Ah, you've hit my e-mail black hole! Somewhere that message is filed, in among 400K of "get back to" messages. We've been a bit busy replacing all of our machines in time for the new quarter, and I haven't hacked on Up in a long time (there are several problems, which taken together suggest a complete redesign). These two facts combine to create a "gee, I'll get back to him real soon". To get it to work correctly with dvips requires either fixing the way that dvips writes its end-of-page code (which is in the patch on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu), or fixing up to do its work inside the redefined showpage instead of physically between pages. Since I wrote this package, I've seen a lot of *bad* PostScript that claims to follow the DSC. This just shows how vague that document is. Tomas' output is *not* bad, it just does something I don't like (and that my code doesn't catch :-)). -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)