Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: PostScript page reverser? Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 90 15:09:08 GMT Sender: usenet@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 18 Some PostScript printers place their output face-down in the collector bin, and some place it face-up. Some producers of PostScript documents arrange "page 1" at the beginning of the file, and some put it at the end. The selection is really pretty arbitrary, because there's no way to know what sort of printer (face-up or face-down) the recipient will have. So it's often decided by what sort of printer the author uses. About half the time, this leads to wasting the recipient's secretary's time recollating the document. It's mind-numbingly dull work and they have better things to do. Adobe's TranScript package includes a program called "psrev" that can take any format-conformant PostScript document and (re-)reverse it, or even select page ranges for printing. I've looked through the sources of psroff, psf, a2ps, and groff and found nothing that looks promising. It's probably a quick hack (likely a Perl one-liner :-) and one of those wheels that shouldn't be reinvented. Has anyone written a freely available PostScript page reverser?