Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!csbg
From: csbg@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Bruce)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: re: Richard and his many up print program
Message-ID: <952@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Feb 88 22:04:26 GMT
Reply-To: csbg@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Bruce)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Edinburgh University
Lines: 39
Keywords: Multi-column output

richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
> Alright.  I'm sick of seeing those "where can I get the include
> files printed two columns to a page" postings.
> 
> Here is a program that splits text into any number of columns
> and produces a postscript file, suitable for framing.
> 
> It handles any font, any size, you can specify # of lines
> per page, all that good stuff.
> 
> It probably isn't as good as the one Clayton Cramer announced
> in comp.newprod, but it's free.
> 
> This is not a great example of intelli... inteli... intael.. real
> swift PostScript programming, but it works.
> 
> ======== snip snip snip =================== snippity snip snip ===========
> 
> [Program deleted]

Unfortunately, the end of the program seems to have been swallowed by some
line munching beast as it came to us over the net. Please post it again
Richard as I'm sure that a lot of people (most of them resource managers)
would be very happy to have a copy of the full working program.

The state of the end of the program on our machine was as follows:

>    fprintf (out, "\nshowpage\n");
> 
>    fprintf (out, "%sPage %d %d\n", pp, page_nbr - 1, page_nbr);
>    i
> 

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