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From: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones)
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Subject: Re: dvips: How to get two TeX pages on one landscape side ?
Keywords: dvips landscape
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.174350.25211@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 17:43:50 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.131755.14550@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <1991Jun28.084321.13558@cs.ruu.nl>
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In-Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)

I tried replying to the original article earlier, but my note seems to
have gotten dropped.

In article <1991Jun28.084321.13558@cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs (Piet van
Oostrum) writes:
>>>>>> winckler@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Joerg Winckler) (JW) writes:

>JW> I try to get two small TeX-pages one one side of a sheed of paper in
>JW> landscape mode. Does anyone knows the PostScript Code required for this
>JW> and where to put it in the *.pro files ?
>
>I suppose you have dvips 5.47.
>
>Use this with -h twoup.ps -t landscape
> 
>(or \special{landscape}\special{header=twoup.ps}

Just rearranging the PostScript code won't produce very good results.
A better solution is to use dvidvi (also written by Tomas Rokicki and
available from labrea) to rearrange the DVI file and and then run
dvips on the new file.  The following does pretty well:

        dvidvi 2:0\(-1in,0in\),1\(6in,0in\) old.dvi new.dvi
        dvips -x 772.7 -t landscape new.dvi

Of course, this more or less assumes that you have dvips configured to
generate pk files on the fly.  Otherwise you'll probably be no better
off than if you just mucked around with the PostScript.
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