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From: c60a-2di@e260-2b.berkeley.edu (The Cybermat Rider)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Splitting DVI Files
Summary: Request for info
Keywords: DVI files splitting
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Date: 2 Jan 89 09:23:13 GMT
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I've written a Perl script that takes a Postscript file generated from a
.dvi file via dvi2ps and splits it into two files containing odd- and
even-numbered pages respectively.  This is to facilitate printing
double-sided pages on a LaserWriter.

However, I've found that printing the split-files is a REAL headache.  It
occasionally works well, but often enough, I either get NOTHING AT ALL or
just 1 page!  (Before anyone mentions it, the Postscript prolog and trailer
from the original are present in each split-file.

Does anyone know how to split a TeX file into odd and even pages (a) at the
Postscript level and/or (b) at the DVI level?  (I'm not asking how to to it
at the TeX level coz I often don't have access to the document sources.)
Better still, does anyone have any code that does this?

Thanks very much in advance for any info!

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