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From: ajcd@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Angus Duggan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Text to PS in Signature Order
Keywords: PostScript utilities, page signature & selection.
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Date: 6 Apr 91 11:45:12 GMT
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In article <25321806@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
> 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"?
> 
> If anyone has this, let me know... otherwise I have to write it AGAIN
> and I *hate* writing software :-)
I've just posted a set of utilities to alt.sources which performs this
function, among others. Page selection, ordering into signatures, reversal,
merging, and other functions are supported.

A.
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