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From: walker@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Rick Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Text to PS in Signature Order
Message-ID: <71850002@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 20:45:06 GMT
References: <25321806@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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/ hpl-opus:alt.sources.wanted / tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) /  4:43 pm  Apr  1, 1991 /
> We have heard of a whole bunch of utilities which translate ASCII text
> into PostScript output suitable for printing one-up, two-up, four-up and
> so forth.
> 
> What I want to know is, do any of these support two-up printing in
> SIGNATURE ORDER?  That is,
> 
> so that the resulting two-pass output can be folded and stapled along
> the midline and read as a "book"?
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On a related note, I've been looking for something that would print
pages so that I could take the double-side output, fold the paper in
half three times, staple, trim off the outside folds, and end up with
a pocket-sized address book.

For a sixteen page book, you need one double-side page that is printed
thusly:

Side one:                           Side two:
---------------------------------   ---------------------------------
|       |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |       |
|  5U   |  12U  |  9U   |  8U   |   |  7U   |  10U  |  11U  |  6U   |
|       |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |       |
---------------------------------   ---------------------------------
|       |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |       |
|  4R   |  13R  |  16R  |  1R   |   |  2R   |  15R  |  14R  |  3R   |
|       |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |   |       |       |       |       |
---------------------------------   ---------------------------------

"U" stands for upside down text.  "R" stands for right-side up text.
The orientation is such that 3R is printed behind 4R, and 
2R behind 1R, etc...

Something this size would fit into a 3x5" standard datebook or address
book and would make it easy to update your addresses from your computer
database.

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Rick Walker
walker@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com