Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
Hello, list. Would you, please, help me to join multiple Postscript files into one document? I have several *.ps files with formatted text and illustrations and want to collect them into a single document. Since googled first, I've tried: $ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=program.ps part1.ps part2.ps part3.ps But resulted document is x10 in size and looks like a rasterized one. There are serious paper format mismatches also. Do not fit my needs, anyway. Exactly the same results were achieved with 'psmerge' usage. Is there a solution, which is just collect separate pages into one document and preserve an original Postscript format in the same time? Thanks in advance. -- С Уважением, Марк Гольдштейн Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
Hello Mark, what you want is the psutils package ! Have fun, Jerome Mark Goldshtein wrote: Hello, list. Would you, please, help me to join multiple Postscript files into one document? I have several *.ps files with formatted text and illustrations and want to collect them into a single document. Since googled first, I've tried: $ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=program.ps part1.ps part2.ps part3.ps But resulted document is x10 in size and looks like a rasterized one. There are serious paper format mismatches also. Do not fit my needs, anyway. Exactly the same results were achieved with 'psmerge' usage. Is there a solution, which is just collect separate pages into one document and preserve an original Postscript format in the same time? Thanks in advance. -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
Would you, please, help me to join multiple Postscript files into one document? I have several *.ps files with formatted text and illustrations and want to collect them into a single document. Not sure what the resulintg document should look like, but if by collect you mean append the pages, then cat might do the trick (the resulting document should be proper Postscript but will not follow the Document Structuring Conventions). Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Jerome BENOIT jgmben...@mailsnare.net wrote: Hello Mark, what you want is the psutils package ! Thanks for the answer, but I don't think so. As I've mentioned above, psmerge gaves me the same result, e.g. heavy-weight, paper-mismatched and rasterized something. Do you know another utility/command to weld two PS files? -- С Уважением, Марк Гольдштейн Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: Would you, please, help me to join multiple Postscript files into one document? I have several *.ps files with formatted text and illustrations and want to collect them into a single document. Not sure what the resulintg document should look like, but if by collect you mean append the pages, then cat might do the trick (the resulting document should be proper Postscript but will not follow the Document Structuring Conventions). Yes, thank you, I do mean append the pages, but 'cat' also do not produces a good result. Probably, all pages from all files are there, but I can not see them. Only pages from the first document in a row. I am using 'evince' to display the pages. As you have mentioned, resulting file is not follow the Document Structuring Conventions. -- С Уважением, Марк Гольдштейн Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Jerome BENOIT jgmben...@mailsnare.net wrote: Hi ! as a matter of fact I play with PDF files rather than PS files: epstopdf to convert (you can try ps2pdf or produce PDF files directly (e.g., use pdflatex instead of latex)); pdfjoin (in pdfjam package) to merge them. There is other tools to play with PDF files. At least for what I do, this approach is fine. Yes, I agree, PDF is a very nice platform to play with. In my plans, PS to PDF convertion and further pages merging as PDF is designated as 'Plan B'. It is preferable to keep files in original format, though. -- С Уважением, Марк Гольдштейн Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
Hi ! as a matter of fact I play with PDF files rather than PS files: epstopdf to convert (you can try ps2pdf or produce PDF files directly (e.g., use pdflatex instead of latex)); pdfjoin (in pdfjam package) to merge them. There is other tools to play with PDF files. At least for what I do, this approach is fine. hth, Jerome Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Jerome BENOIT jgmben...@mailsnare.net wrote: Hello Mark, what you want is the psutils package ! Thanks for the answer, but I don't think so. As I've mentioned above, psmerge gaves me the same result, e.g. heavy-weight, paper-mismatched and rasterized something. Do you know another utility/command to weld two PS files? -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: Would you, please, help me to join multiple Postscript files into one document? I have several *.ps files with formatted text and illustrations and want to collect them into a single document. Not sure what the resulintg document should look like, but if by collect you mean append the pages, then cat might do the trick (the resulting document should be proper Postscript but will not follow the Document Structuring Conventions). Yes, thank you, I do mean append the pages, but 'cat' also do not produces a good result. Probably, all pages from all files are there, but I can not see them. Only pages from the first document in a row. I am using 'evince' to display the pages. As you have mentioned, resulting file is not follow the Document Structuring Conventions. *.ps files are source code of an interpreted language Postscript. Usually they contain quite a bit of definitions, fonts etc. before pages themselves are described. In general PS files can't be just concatenated and still expected to make sense for the interpreter. The way to join PS files should incorporate a Postscript interpreter. Ghostscript perhaps?. - -- Sarunas Burdulis Systems Administrator Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknfW+UACgkQejaFVltl6E/y9ACgrMi9GqBC2uOsNWl6GMhEuWbO JosAnjUFynO4xlsIXc2XkJWA9O9jHSFn =rQUV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Sarunas Burdulis saru...@math.dartmouth.edu wrote: *.ps files are source code of an interpreted language Postscript. Usually they contain quite a bit of definitions, fonts etc. before pages themselves are described. In general PS files can't be just concatenated and still expected to make sense for the interpreter. The way to join PS files should incorporate a Postscript interpreter. Ghostscript perhaps?. Yes, thanks for tip but if you look at my message, which is started the tread, you may see: MGSince googled first, I've tried: $ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=program.ps part1.ps part2.ps part3.ps But resulted document is x10 in size and looks like a rasterized one. There are serious paper format mismatches also. Do not fit my needs, anyway. 'gs' is a Ghostscript interpreter. Actually, I am really surprised with that situation. I know, PS is a language. And as I have expected from a language, it have to be fully structured and formalized, because it supposed to be 'rendered' or 'interpreted'. Technically, I do not understand what the problem is to append the text pages to each other. Few hours ago I was pretty sure that task may be resolved with a single google ride. :( -- С Уважением, Марк Гольдштейн Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny. How to join multiply Postscript files into one document?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Sarunas Burdulis saru...@math.dartmouth.edu wrote: *.ps files are source code of an interpreted language Postscript. Usually they contain quite a bit of definitions, fonts etc. before pages themselves are described. In general PS files can't be just concatenated and still expected to make sense for the interpreter. The way to join PS files should incorporate a Postscript interpreter. Ghostscript perhaps?. Yes, thanks for tip but if you look at my message, which is started the tread, you may see: MGSince googled first, I've tried: $ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=program.ps part1.ps part2.ps part3.ps But resulted document is x10 in size and looks like a rasterized one. There are serious paper format mismatches also. Do not fit my needs, anyway. ... (Sorry for missing the top of the thread.) It has to do with the 'pswrite' driver (its capabilities and/or options). pswrite might be rasterizing at least part of the input. Clearly it's interpreting input files and writing entirely new PS code for the output. While output may look similar, the underlying PS code will still be very different. As for the paper size you might be able to get correct page size with gs - -sPAPERSIZE= option --- just in case you haven't tried that yet... Unless it's the original PS code that you want to preserve, I would use PDF as an intermediate format. ps2pdf, merge PDFs, print to PS or just leave in PDF --- it's an open format anyway... - -- Sarunas Burdulis Systems Administrator Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknfbqoACgkQejaFVltl6E9N+QCfUunnxJ+vWhf+qHwPd4hyZpHq v4UAoLiqm0ql+u4iAJbrbj/5eCvMGhuT =Ejbl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
