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From: paul@ardent.UUCP (Paul Ausick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: making a booklet
Message-ID: <1921@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 89 18:49:57 GMT
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Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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> 
> I would like to make a little booklet (actually, for addresses) out of
> sheets of paper folded into eighths.  It seems that it ought to be
> easy enought to write a postscript program that would take 16 normal
> size pages (generated by TeX or something like that) and transform
> them into 2 (front & back) pages; it would involve shrinking them,
> turning them sideways (some left and some right), then moving them
> into the correct positions on the two pages.
> 
> If anyone has a program that does anything similar, I would be most
> interested in seeing it, since I'm going to have to learn all the
> PostScript I need to write this.  Would you mail me a copy?  You can
> also mail me if you're interested in seeing what I come up with.

I downloaded a Mac program from Compuserve that might do this.
It's called 'PocketBookWriter 1.2' and is shareware. I've only tried it
with their included document, but it is pretty nifty. It took a 12-page
document, rotated it, sorted the pages so they'd print on the proper
sheet, shrunk the pages so two reduced pages fit on a single, rotatted
8.5x11 sheet, and printed. For the 12-pager, it printed 2 & 11, 4 & 9, and
6 & 7 on separate sheets; then I ran to the printer and put the same 3
sheets back in the order in which they came out the first time, ran back
to the Mac and printed the remaining pages, 1 & 12, 2 & 10, and 5 & 8.
Pretty spiffy. 

I'm not sure whether it'll do the pseudo-octavo size you want, but I
bet it would. Company is : Domino Arts, 907 Norwood Drive, Norwalk, Iowa
50211. $35 shareware.


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/Paul Ausick
Ardent Computer Corporation
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