Yeah, I noticed that, as I mentioned in my original mail, but that
didn't work well...

In the end, I managed to do it with mpage:

mpage -a -o -R -m50 tools1.ps > fix.ps

Cheers,

Hans


On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 11:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> Easy, just open the pdf with kprinter, and select the option...
> works right away on PDF files.
> 
> On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 23:53, Erik Laxdal wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:49 pm, SainTiss wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm looking for an application which can handle "resizing" pages of a
> > > pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on
> > > each printer page...
> > >
> > > Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that...
> > >
> > > Well, actually, kghostview can in theory, since there is such a setting
> > > in the printer dialog, but it's just being done the wrong way, with
> > > pages cut in half and such...
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Hans
> > 
> > Why not use the command line method.  With whatever tool you like to use, 
> > convert the .pdf file to a .ps file (printing the .pdf to a file from 
> > Acroread will do).   Then at the command line use the following commands.
> > 
> > To convert your .ps so there are 4 logical pages to 1 physical page use:
> >      psnup -4 infile.ps outfile.ps
> > depending upon your page sizes you may need to add input/output page size and 
> > orientation parameters.  Check the man page (man psnup) for these, as there 
> > are many possible combinations.
> > 
> > Then you can either view the output file (to ensure it is correct) and print 
> > from there or just print the file from the command line as follows:
> >      lpr outfile.ps
> > 
> > Erik
> > 
> > 
> > 
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