Hi!

I would like to print out a a0 postscript page on multiple a4 pages so
I can get an idea how it will look before I send it to print.
Any one know how this can be done?

Cheers,
Peter

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Computational Vision & Active Perception Laboratory
Numerical Analysis & Computing Science
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden

: Hi!

: I would like to print out a a0 postscript page on multiple a4 pages so
: I can get an idea how it will look before I send it to print.
: Any one know how this can be done?

: Cheers,
: Peter

Hello, there, and Adobe Systems, _PostScript Tutorial and Cookbook_ (also
known as "The Blue Book") includes a routine of this kind for outputting a
large page on several smaller pages. The programs in the Blue Book may
available on the Web.

Most appreciatively,

Margo Schulter

One possibility is the Poster program, which lets you enlarge any single-
page PS document or eps graphic, and print it on lots of smaller pages.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/poster.html

Jim Land
     PostScript/Ghostscript Internet Resources Web Page
          http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/postscript.html

You can use the translate operator to move the page origin so that
different parts of it print out. Then you print the pages as many times
as required to get out all the tiles, shifting the origin for each tile.

eg
0 0 translate
<file>

Will print the bottom left corner

0 792 trasnlate
<file>

will print the next A4 tile above it

0 1584 translate
<file>

will print the third tile vertically

0 2376 translate
<file>

will print the 4th and final tile in the first column

Then
612 0 translate
<file>

will print the first of the next column etc.

For mor interesting implementations, you could write a loop and 'run'
the file.

If you do this in a BeginPage procedure then it should be proof against
initgraphics and such in the file. If you don't have at least a level 2
printer then you can't use BeginPage, and thsi solution may not work.

                                        Ken

Thanks! That did the trick. Although I had to convert the file to eps
to get it to work.

Peter