Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!optilink!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript page reverser? Message-ID: <4772@optilink.UUCP> Date: 31 Oct 90 22:56:24 GMT References: Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 26 In article , bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > 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? Frustrating, isn't it? I wrote a page reverser specifically for Microsoft Word -- and there's the rub. Unless you are capable of interpreting PostScript, you can't write a PostScript page reverse which is generally useful -- you end up building one for a particular application. Building one for a particular application is enough work that no one does it for free -- and no one is going to build a program that works for any arbitrary PostScript program and give it away. -- Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer Alcohol prohibition didn't work; drug prohibition doesn't work; gun prohibition won't work. You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!