Re: Printing onto A3

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
To answer my own question and for the benefit of others:

I found an interesting idea on somebody's website:
http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/misc/shellcmds.txt along with some other
interesting PS type jobs.

At the bottom, there is mention of some tools from the psutils package,
namely psbook and psnup.

I will look into this, when I get chance.

I quote:
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Generate postscript file in signature (2x A5 pages to A4):
cat _a.ps |psbook |psnup -pa4 -s1 -2 >pa.ps

Print odd pages:
psselect -o pa.ps >pa_o.ps

Print even pages:
psselect -e pa.ps >pa_e.ps

Print A5 booklet on A4 duplex on HP5Si:
cat book.ps |psbook |psnup -pa4 -s1 -2 |\
lpr -Plp2o -J 'PageSize:A4 Duplex:DuplexTumble'

Print A4 booklet on A3 duplex on HP5Si:
cat book.ps |psbook |psnup -pa3 -s1 -2 |\
lpr -Plp2o -J 'PageSize:A3 Duplex:DuplexTumble'
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Cheers,
Ralph

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