On Friday 06 January 2006 19:50, Progga wrote: > $ pdf2ps input.pdf - | psnup -2 > output.ps
In a way this is a nice solution, and more interesting is that all this time the 'pstools' thing was there, and i have used it too, though it did not occur to me. But there are some practical problems with this solution. I am giving you all the details: The input pdf was 420 KB, exported from OOo 2 with quite a few equations and matrices and Bangla text in Solaiman Lipi. The output gs file is 369 MB, and it took 29 minutes 4 seconds to complete the command. All this time no other user process was running. The next step was to create a pdf from this ps, because, i have to send it, say to the printer. And this again too 11 minutes 3 seconds for ps2pdf14, and the output pdf was 98 MB. And the screen resolution is quite bad too, though i think this will come OK in print, because gs print-optimizes it. The page format is US letter, though i think it can be adjusted with the options. And see, the original file was not very big, it was 36 A4 pages of 12 point Solaiman Lipi and some maths. And you know, how resource hungry gs is, does not allow anything else to de done, at least on my Athlon 1800+. So, i don't think it was a practical solution in that sense. -- dipankar das ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
