Use of psnup for 11x17 printing?

[Rich Baughman]

I would like to be able to take a "normal" PS document (that follows the
Adobe Document Structuring Conventions, of course) and print it on a printer
that can do duplexed 11x17 pages so that I get a 4-image, 1-sheet of paper
booklet, folded in the middle. I tried running "psnup -2 -w17 -h11 ...", but
the output only prints the odd numbered pages on the left side of the paper;
the right half is blank.

Will psnup do this? How? If not, is there another ps___ tool that will do
this?

Thanks for your help. If you can, please reply via email.
--
Rich Baughman / Archimedes Systems, Inc. / Waltham, MA
ri...@archimedes.com

[Angus Duggan]

In article <DuCCI...@archimedes.com> ri...@archimedes.com (Rich Baughman) writes:
>I would like to be able to take a "normal" PS document (that follows the
>Adobe Document Structuring Conventions, of course) and print it on a printer
>that can do duplexed 11x17 pages so that I get a 4-image, 1-sheet of paper
>booklet, folded in the middle. I tried running "psnup -2 -w17 -h11 ...", but
>the output only prints the odd numbered pages on the left side of the paper;
>the right half is blank.
>
>Will psnup do this? How? If not, is there another ps___ tool that will do
>this?

psnup should be able to do this. It sounds like the right pages are being
shifted off page somehow. If your pages (and printer) are portrait orientation
by default, in which case using "psnup -2 -ptabloid" should work. If they are
landscape orientation, "psnup -2 -pledger" should work. BTW, the default units
for -w and -h are PostScript units, if you want inches you have to explicitly
say -w11in and -h17in.

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