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From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
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Subject: Re: help for postscript novice
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Date: 20 Jan 89 22:42:32 GMT
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In article <311@esosun.UUCP> gail@esosun.UUCP (Gail F Matthews) writes:
 
> I have two files: one containing some text, the other containing the
> output from psplot.  How do I get the text printed on the same page
> with the psplot output?

Suppose the file containing the text is foo.txt, and the file
containing the output from psplot is bar.ps.

Run foo.txt through enscript making foo.ps, e.g.,

  enscript -fHelvetica12 -B -p foo.ps foo.txt

Now patching together the PostScript files and sending them to the
printer gets them printed.  The only problem is that both foo.ps and
bar.ps contain page eject commands -- the PostScript "showpage"
operator.  That must be stripped out of one of the files with an
editor.  For example

  sed "s/showpage//" bar.ps | cat - foo.ps | lpr

does the job, assuming you have a UNIX system.  If not the principle
is the same, patch together the files removing the showpage from one.