> I would like to print labels. For this I'd generate N times some > labels, with slight different content. Then I have N *.eps file.
> Question. How do I merge them into one A4 postscript page? > Options I have so far. > * LaTex. It is pain to do it, but once it's done, it's okay. Actually, TeX proper (and LaTeX is just a TeX macro package) can't; all it can do is drop a directive in the DVI that tells the DVI converter to do something implementation-specific. You then need a DVI-to-PostScript converter that does what you want when it sees the resulting \special in the DVI. Also, where's the pain? Is it not just a suitable \halign or \valign? > * Postscript. It should be possible to include *.eps into the main > page. That's what I'd recommend. > Does anyone have any experience with Postscript programming? Yes. :) > Any other idea is welcome. It would be nice if the solution was > scriptable. Creating PostScript is scriptable in principle, since PostScript is just plain text (with suitable content - that is, PostScript is plain text just as much as, for example, C is). How easy is it? If you're willing to make a few assumptions, such as the amount you need to scale the labels by (which may be reasonable in your case), then it's probably just a matter of catting together the pieces of a template with the label files. It might even be as simple as doing gsave NNN NNN translate NNN dup scale save ...label file 1 goes here... restore grestore gsave NNN NNN translate NNN dup scale save ...label file 2 goes here... restore grestore gsave NNN NNN translate NNN dup scale save ...label file 3 goes here... restore grestore ...etc... showpage where the NNN things in the gsave...save lines are values you need to work out to control where on the page the label files appear (first two NNNs) and what sizes they are (third NNN). In a proper general-purpose solution these would be computed based on the bounding box of the EPS file, but doing that may be more work than it's worth in this case. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
