Source for sending postscript to laser printer as a quad portrait

[Derek Abbott]

There is a command that can send an ordinary postcript file to a laser printer,
and every 4 pages of postscript comes out on one physical A4 page in mini quad
portrait format.

This is a great device for saving paper for draft documents.

I'm looking for a public domain source for this. Any suggestions?

[Joseph H. Buehler]

>>>>> "DA" == Derek Abbott <dab...@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au> writes:

DA> There is a command that can send an ordinary postcript file to
DA> a laser printer, and every 4 pages of postscript comes out on
DA> one physical A4 page in mini quad portrait format.

DA> This is a great device for saving paper for draft documents.

DA> I'm looking for a public domain source for this. Any
DA> suggestions?

Try mpage:

uunet!~/systems/ibmpc/msdos/simtel/printer/mpage113.zip 24080
uunet!~/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume9/mpage/part01.Z 25544
uunet!~/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume9/mpage/part02.Z 14633

I'm using the c.s.m version, have been for ages, I assume that the DOS
version listed above is just a port of the same thing. It will print
PostScript files 1, 2, 4, or 8 logical pages per physical page, in
landscape or portrait, with or without borders, and a number of other
things. My only complaint was that when using it to convert ASCII to
PostScript (it does that too), I had to tweak it a little to get the
right number of lines/columns per page for UNIX utilities like "pr".

Joe Buehler

[Angus Duggan]

If your file is DSC conformant, psnup (from psutils) will do this. PSUtils is
available from ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk:pub/ajcd/psutils.tar.Z

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