Managed printing in 'mirror' by adding this to my latex preamble:
\special{papersize=5.5in,8.5in}
\usepackage{poligraf}
\mirror
BTW, this is a fantastic page showing what TeX can do in the world of graphics:
http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/#graphics
The TeX showcase
Derek had also shown me some great tools for preparing TeX/LaTeX/LyX
files for the printing house.
See:
[PDF]
Poligraf: from T E X to printing house
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Poligraf: from T. E. X to printing house. Janusz Marian Nowacki. ∗.
abstract. The macro package Poligraf was for the first time presented
at the Polish T ...
www.ntg.nl/eurotex/poli-en.pdf
Colour-separations, CMYK printing and what not! This solution
apparently comes from Poland.
For more on using poligraph, see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/TeX-PS/poligraf/
Rgds, FN
On 25/11/2007, Edgar D' Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2007 9:48 AM, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Could someone please guide me how to print a PDF file (generated in
> > Lyx) in the mirror format? I need this for printing a book. Thanks! FN
> >
>
> Fred,
> I was checking mail at the LUG meet yesterday, and asked Arvind. The basic
> idea is that you have to do mirror printing from the program itself (if it
> supports that). For instance, (I think he said) CorelDraw or PageMaker had a
> checkbox to do this. However, maybe Lyx doesn't have this feature. Arvind
> also mentioned that he had (very long ago, in pre-Linux days) done a batch
> file to modify a PostScript file to mirror-image the output while sending to
> the printer. Based on that, I did some googling, and found something that
> may help. If you print from Lyx to a PostScript file, you could then work on
> this PS file to get mirror-imaged output:
> http://www.tug.org/mail-archives/pstricks/2000/000469.html tells you, at the
> bottom of the page, after the PS code:
>
> Alternatively, if you have the normal postscript file already generated,
> please load it any ascii editor, cut and paste this mirror.ps after the
> comments part in your normal postscript file.
> If you view this file with gv (ghostscript) this will show mirror imaged
> view of the contents.
>
> I think dvips (mentioned on that page) is for TeX to PS
> conversion/generation, so probably it's not of use. However, if you ignore
> that and use the manual mod quoted above this, it might work...
> You could use Evince or other PostScript viewers to see if this works on
> your book's PS file. If it does, you could then use the ps2pdf utility to
> convert the modified PS file to PDF (the ps2pdf13 and ps2pdf14 commands on
> my system were installed as part of the ghostscript-common-8.60-55 package
> which is probably already on your system).
>
> HTH
> Ed,
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