print .ps with several slides on one page
Yuan Liu
I got a .ps file that I would like to put 2 pages side by side on top and
bottom. It will be 4 pages totally in one actual print page. What I only have
at hand is a .ps file. I can not access either .tex or .dvi files.
Thanks,
-Yuan
Huai Zhong LI
: I wonder if it is possible to do this. Any suggestions are welcome.
Try "psnup" in "psutils". See the man page below.
NAME
psnup - multiple pages per sheet
SYNOPSIS
psnup [ -wwidth ] [ -hheight ] [ -ppaper ] [ -l ] [ -r ] [ -f ] [ -c ] [
-mmargin ] [ -bborder ] [ -dlwidth ] [ -sscale ] [ -nup ] [ -q ] [
infile [ outfile ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Psnup puts multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet of paper.
The input PostScript file should follow the Adobe Document Structuring
Conventions.
The -w option gives the paper width, and the -h option gives the paper
height, normally specified in cm or in to convert PostScript's points
(1/72 of an inch) to centimeters or inches. The -p option can be used
as an alternative, to set the paper size to a3, a4, a5, b5, letter,
legal, or 10x14. The default paper size is a4.
The -l option should be used for pages which are in landscape orienta-
tion (rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise). The -r option should be used
for pages which are in seascape orientation (rotated 90 degrees clock-
wise), and the -f option should be used for pages which have the width
and height interchanged, but are not rotated.
Psnup normally uses `row-major' layout, where adjacent pages are placed
in rows across the paper. The -c option changes the order to `column-
major', where successive pages are placed in columns down the paper.
A margin to leave around the whole page can be specified with the -m
option. This is useful for sheets of `thumbnail' pages, because the nor-
mal page margins are reduced by putting multiple pages on a single
sheet.
The -b option is used to specify an additional margin around each page
on a sheet.
The -d option draws a line around the border of each page, of the speci-
fied width. If the lwidth parameter is omitted, a default linewidth of
1 point is assumed. The linewidth is relative to the original page
dimensions, i.e. it is scaled down with the rest of the page.
The scale chosen by psnup can be overridden with the -s option. This is
useful to merge pages which are already reduced.
The -nup option selects the number of logical pages to put on each sheet
of paper. This can be any whole number; psnup tries to optimise the lay-
out so that the minimum amount of space is wasted. If psnup cannot find
a layout within its tolerance limit, it will abort with an error mes-
sage.
Psnup normally prints the page numbers of the pages re-arranged; the -q
option suppresses this.
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