 | Chapter 43 Printing |  |
| Chapter 43 Printing | |
| PSUtils | Angus Duggan's PSUtils package contains several interesting tools in addition to psselect (43.23). They're a bit more esoteric, but they can be very useful in some situations: for example, if you're printing a brochure or a bulletin, these tools help to automate the task. We'll only summarize them quickly; you can look at Angus's manual pages for detailed information. |
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Fits an EPSF file -capsulated PostScript) to a given bounding box. epsffit can center the image, rotate it, adjust the aspect ratio, and add showpage to make it print.
Extracts resources (fonts, procsets, patterns, files, etc.) from a PostScript
document into separate files, replacing them with
appropriate %%IncludeResource
comments in the document prologue.
This makes it safe to rearrange the document with psnup or pstops.
Includes resources (fonts, procsets, patterns, files, etc.) indicated by
the %%IncludeResource
comments in a PostScript document.
(See extractres above.)
Rearranges files in a PostScript document into "signatures"; that is, rearranges pages so that folding them "naturally" will result in a book or pamphlet.
Merges PostScript documents into a single document. It only works in specific cases: documents created by the same application, with the same device setup and resources loaded.
Rearranges a PostScript document so that it prints several pages on each sheet of paper, scaling and orienting the pages appropriately for a booklet. Together with psbook, psnup makes production of a booklet (or even a moderate-sized book) relatively easy.
As with psbook, you may need a preprocessor like fixfmps (43.23) to put the PostScript file into an acceptable form.
Rescales and centers a document on a different size of paper. For example, it converts an American letter-size document to A4 size paper.
A general utility for rearranging pages in a PostScript document. You can select individual pages, put several pages on an individual page with different orientations, and so on.
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| 43.23 psselect: Print Some Pages from a PostScript file |  | 43.25 The Portable Bitmap Package |
