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>Here I have a Postscript file that would produce some 200 pages of
>output. Since it consists basically of plain text in an average
>typesize of 11 or 12 pt, I would be perfectly happy with a reduced
>printout, two text pages on one paper page (rotated 90 degrees). That
>would still be readable without too much eye strain, and would help
>to save some paper.
>Is there a way (simple or complicated) how this can be achieved
>without going back to the program that created the Postscript file
>(which is not available here) ?
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||Article 298 of comp.lang.postscript:
||Path: kluge!uflorida!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
||Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
||Subject: Re: Wanted: Program to compress PS stream (6 pages to 1)
||Date: 17 May 90 14:10:40 GMT
||Distribution: usa
||Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City
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||> Does anyone know of a program which will take a postscript stream (of
||> pages) and produce a "compressed" form, where six logical pages appear
||> on a single physical page?
||
|| Ftp to goober.phri.nyu.edu and grab ~ftp/pub/misc/psnup.tar.Z. It
||does almost exactly what you want; takes a PS file and prints it n-up,
||where n is 2, 4, 8, or 16. Sorry, no 6-up. Non-powers-of-2-up starts to
||get tricky, since the page aspect ratios don't work out right. Ned
||Batchelder wrote psnup, I just repackaged it a little.
||
|| I have also heard of something called "Save A Tree" which prints
||mac text files 2-up or 4-up. I've never used it, but is sounds good.
||According to the information I have, you can grab ~ftp/pub/SaveATree.hqx
||from thylacine.cs.wisc.edu (128.105.1.208)
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||Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
||455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
||"Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"
very naive question