Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!grand!day From: day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: multiple-upsmanship Keywords: PostScript Message-ID: <418@grand.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 88 01:29:59 GMT Organization: Grand Software, Inc., 213-650-1089, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 43 You may remember that a while back, denise@cwi.nl (Denise L. Draper) posted a program called pshalf, which would print a PostScript file two-up, that is, in landscape mode side by side at about half size. I have a burning need for the general case. I want to print many pages on a sheet, non-rotated. I'd like to be able to print them in pairs, with boxes around them, like this: +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ | | | 1| |2 | | 3| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ |4 | | 5| |6 | | 7| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ Layout designers like to look at a book this way. It would be great if there were the following parameters that could be tweaked: ax ay offset of upper-left of useful part of each page in source ps file bx by size of useful part on each page c scale factor (multiplied times [bx,by] to make final size of each page) d number of pages per row e number of pages per column f distance in x from odd to even page g distance in x from even to odd page h distance in y to next row i rotate or not j leave first page slot blank or not k box around each page or not l linewidth for k Has anyone written such a program? I would gladly pay money for it! --dave yost