Hello everyone, I seek sponsoring for the package "upprint". The description from http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/11/msg00664.html is as follows:
Description: tools for better n-up printing The upprint package contains tools for better formatting of print jobs. Unlike print systems such as CUPS, which delegate all formatting to the print server, the upprint tools are designed to work on the user side, and therefore under the user's control. The package provides the following tools: . pstops-clip: an extension of Angus J. C. Duggan's pstops program for reformatting postscript files. The extension allows configurable page clipping. . psdim: a small utility to be used in conjunction with pstops or pstops-clip. It determines the true margins of a postscript documents and calculates the optimal page placement for n-up printing. It outputs a format string suitable for processing by pstops or pstops-clip. In order to accurately determine the size of the pages in a postscript document, psdim internally uses the ghostscript interpreter to render the document. For this reason, psdim is relatively slow, but much more accurate than other tools. . lprwrap: a wrapper around the standard "lpr" program. Lprwrap is a client-side program, which means, all processing is done under your control before passing the print job to lpr. Lprwrap can convert common file formats to postscript. It recognizes special options for duplex printing and n-up printing. It handles n-up printing intelligently, with optimal margins based on the actual document (see above illustration). There is similar software like "pdfcrop" from the latex universe, which is, however, not as solid and fast as this solution. It differs from what is available in KPDF/evince (or Adobe Reader) by actually looking at the document to determine where white space ends, instead of relying on the "margin" data in the document header. Using a little wrapper using "pdftops" and "ps2pdf" it works well with PDF files of any kind, which is my main use case. Upprint is great for printing academic papers in a more paper-efficient and eye-friendly way. A preliminary package can be downloaded from mentors.debian.net: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=upprint This is my first debian package, so please bear with mistake I may have made. Cheers, Paulus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
