| Jeff Abrahamson on 30 Dec 2004 02:17:33 -0000 |
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:59:49PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
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> 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?
Maybe this will help bring this into the realm of the normal:
Using psselect, I can make a ps document with pages 1 1 2 2 3 3
etc. as above. I can use psbook to achieve the other. These are one
to a page.
So psnup should work, right? But I can't get the output page size to
set correctly.
psnup -s1 -2 -pletter input.ps output.ps
should work, but doesn't. The output is scaled for 11x8.5, but it's
cropped for 5.5x8.5.
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Jeff
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