On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Rodos wrote:
> I loaded it into Acrobat 4 on doze and printed to file with a postscript
> driver. gv reads the ps file and displays the pages, however it sort of
> things there is only one page, does not list them all. The next page
> button will advance the page though. If I use psnup or other psutils
> programs on the ps file they all say there is only one page and screw up,
> usually putting each of the pages on top of each other.
Well here is how I got it to work.
First problem of bad paging was to use the latest version of acroread,
this produced good postscript which all the psutils were able to
manipulate.
Then I ran into another problem, my printer would not print any of the
output files. It would always accept the postscript, but it would not
output the pages, but the "I have input to print light" would come on. Its
a HPLaserJet 5MP with 4Mb of RAM and I have never had trouble printing to
it before. gv was seeing it all perfectly.
After a lot of wasted time trying lots of different things I decided to
get gs to convert to hpcl, and that worked.
So here is my recepie.
Take one large electronic document in the hundred of page range and get it
into postscript named book.ps.
psbook book.ps sig.ps
psnup -2 -pa4 sig.ps sig2.ps
psselect -o sig2.ps odd.ps
psselect -e -r sig2.ps even.ps
You can now print odd.ps take the output and turn it over and print
even.ps. If like me you need to skip postscript
gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 -r600x600 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=odd.out odd.ps
gs -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 -r600x600 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=even.out even.ps
What you now have is a wad of paper which, if you could fold it in half is
an A5 book of your document. Now go down to Office Works and get them to
giloten the thing in half and ring bind it. Easy. My 200 document can now
come on holidays with me as a nice 50 page bound A5 version.
RodosZZ
P.S. Whilst printing pray you don't get a paper jam!
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