Carl Thanks so much for the help. I've done my own due diligence as well and think I have some answers for both of us.
It appears that pdf2ps creates faulty postscript from exported OpenOffice PDFs. (I get some errors about EOF's missing.) mpage works on *some* postscript files as you have discovered. mpage fails on *some* postscript files such as aforementioned. For some reason, psnup can handle the "bad" postscript that mpage cannot. thanks again....now i have 1 less reason to fire up Windows! chris On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:32 -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 3/16/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/16/06, Chris Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl > > > > > > Thanks for looking into this. Glad I'm not crazy. > > > I tried your examples and indeed pages.ps is fine > > > until one does ps2ps. > > > > > > What comments did you add to pages.ps to make mpage > > > act correctly on it? Any ideas what ps2ps changes > > > on pages.ps to mess it up for mpage? > > > > Actually, I started with a text file created with vi, which consisted of: > > one ^L > > two ^L > > three ^L > > four > > > > and used mpage -1 to translate that to PostScript. Then I took out > > everything that seemed unnecessary, including lots of PostScript > > boilerplate that never got used. I suspect that I could have taken > > out all the structured comments except for > > > > %!PS-Adobe-2.0 > > %%Pages: (atend) > > %%Page: 1 1 > > %%Page: 2 2 > > %%Page: 3 3 > > %%Page: 4 4 > > %%Pages: 4 > > > > since mpage keys on the %%Page: comments. > > > > ps2ps makes such a mess of the original file, it is hard to see what > > is going on. Essentially it replaces all character generation by > > direct calls to "move" and "draw line". > > > > If the net is working well this morning I will see if there are any > > references to similar problems. By the way, have you tried "psnup -4" > > on your original files? I just tried it on the results from "ps2ps > > pages.ps" and it came out with the 4 images in the right place. So > > maybe the answer is to abandon mpage, unless you need some of its > > other handy features, like printing page headers and numbers. > > Nobody seems to have mentioned a problem exactly like this. Just a > few "how do I print 4-up". By the way, I just noticed that > > mpage -4 puts the pages > 1 3 > 2 4 > > psnup -4 puts the pages > 1 2 > 3 4 > > And a2ps -4 delegates the work to psnup. > > I think that each of them has a switch to change the row-major or > column-major aspect. > > carl > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-0804 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________
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