Maybe I haven't understand well the problem, but I think something like pdfposter could help. The address is
http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/ Regards Luigi On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:07:54 -0700 Don Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > By imposition I mean converting a file defining a set of letter-size (8.5 by > 11 in) pages into one defining a set of ledger size pages (17 by 11), each > one containing two letter sized ones, and arranged in such a way that I can > print the ledger sheets 2-sided to make a booklet. Over the years I've > developed a scheme that does this at the dvi level, using a combination of > the ancient programs dviselec, dviconca, and dvidvi. It usually works but > sometimes fails. When it fails, it still allows me to create a ledger sized > postscript from the final dvi (using dvips), but when viewing the postscript > in gsview, at some page after the first gsview tells me I have bad > postscript and refuses to go on. I'm fairly sure the problem has to do with > the postscript specials required by type K slurs, and I tried to remedy it > (long ago) with a PMX option to insert psslurs.pro into the postscript at > the start of every page, but even that doesn't always solve the problem. > > I know there is supposed to be an similar set of programs that let you do > imposition at the postscript level (psbook, etc). I've tried those too, but > was never successful in getting acceptable control over the size and > position of the component page images. > > I'd be very interested to hear how others have approached this task. It > seems that it would be an issue in many other TeX applications beyond > MusiXTeX , and I'd expect there to be some number of folks out there who > have addressed it and have it under control. > > --Don Simons > > > ------------------------------- > [email protected] mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music -- Luigi Cataldi <[email protected]> ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
