Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!piring.cwi.nl!jansteen From: jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Side by Side Printing with DVIPS54 Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 09:07:10 GMT References: <1959@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Lines: 39 wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes: >With the EmTeX dvihplj driver, I can rotate to landscape, and >print 2 logical (small) pages on one physical 8.5" x 11" >page. This is convenient for preprints. Can one print >multiple logical pages to a physical page with DVIPS54? >I believe the ArborTxt dviPS driver allows this also. >Clarence Wilkerson There seems to be some misunderstanding about the responsibility of a dvi to PostScript filter. Basically all that dvips (rokicki; version 5.4) will (and should) do is to provide the user with a convenient interface to any PostScript device and its associated font libraries. It will do so by converting your dvi file into a well structured and well behaving PostScript file consisting of a number of logical units: the pages of the document. There are a number of PostScript tools which can manipulate such well structured PostScript files to produce extra effects like printing "DRAFT" on each page or printing 2 (4, 8, ...) on one physical output page. Yesterday a summary was posted to this group which mentioned "multips" and "mpage". I tested both and they both work fine with the output produced by dvips (rokicki; version 5.4). Contact your local PostScript consultant for more information. Jan van der Steen -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands