[PLUG] rearranging postscript

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

I have a postscript file with 5.5 x 8.5 inch pages.  (Note that this
is half of a landscape 11 x 8.5.)  I would like to transform this
document into a document with 11 x 8.5 inch pages such that each
5.5x8.5 inch page appears twice on an 11x8.5 page.  That is, I want to
go from

    1    2    3    4    5    6    ...

to

    1 1    2 2    3 3    4 4    5 5    6 6    ...

The purpose of this is to make printing (photocopying) a booklet more
efficient: I have the copy shop make one cut and it's ready for
binding.

Alternately, it would work to transform this to

    1 n    2 n-1    3 n-2    4 n-3    ...

or, if n is odd,

    1 -    2 n    3 n-1    4 n-2    ...

Then I photocopy, cut, and fold over (since it will be photocopied two
sided).


It seems pstops should be able to do this, but I am at a loss to see
how.  Any suggestions?

The original document is generated by latex, but getting latex to do
this for me seems even harder, although it would be perfectly fine
with me if it could be done without too many grotesque twists.

Any suggestions?

-- 
 Jeff

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