On Thursday 04 December 2008 03:36:38 pm Mr. Beast wrote: > Thanks for the page imposition script. Unfortunately, I am just a > user and haven't a clue what to do with a script.
We are all just users. But some have learned to use different tools. To run a script you need to go to a command line window and type in e.g., myscript.bat mydoc.ps For the Windows user the script needs a .bat suffix. And some other things are a bit more complex. But it can be done in any OS. First you need to download and install two sets of utilities, Ghostscript and PSUtils. Then you need to write an appropriate script. There are more tools available for PostScript files than for pdf files so you start with a PostScript file and convert to pdf later. I have a script I use for 8.5 x 11 (letter) booklets printed locally on 11 X 17 (tabloid) paper: --------------------------------------------------------------- psbook $1.ps $1b.ps echo 'psnup' psnup -2 -ptabloid -Pletter $1b.ps $1p.ps echo 'psselect' psselect -o $1p.ps $1o.ps psselect -e -r $1p.ps $1e.ps #lpr $1o.ps #echo 'switch paper' #read x #lpr $1e.ps #rm $1p.ps $1e.ps $1o.ps $1b.ps -------------------------------------------------- I can explain these command line by line if you want. This is a Linux script but I could write one for Windows if pressed. Some DTP programs have layout tools built in, like the Coherent variant of TeX. For Scribus we use external tools. In either case it consists of downloading the software and learning how to use it. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
