|
More Links (under subject "Postscript") |
Booklet |
Border around each Page |
Merge Postscript files |
Resizing Postscript-Output |
Print a border around each Page
an easy way is to print the ps-output with psnup
psnup -b10 -d1 yourFile.ps | lpr
|
b10: 10 pixel border
d1: draw line with a width of 1 pixel
Print Output as Booklet
Save the following shellscript as book4, make it executable and run it like
than you'll get it printed as booklet. If you don't have a duplex-unit for your printer save the output
into a file (book4 myOutput.ps > new.ps ) and print odd/even pages separately.
#!/bin/sh
# script for book generation.
# Examples of use:
#
# man -t | book4 | lpr -P
# This will print the man pages in book format and
# both sides. If you need file out, say:
# man -t | book4 > out.ps
# cat name.ps | book4 > name2.ps # ps-file to book-format
# book4 name.ps | lpr # same
#PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
#export PATH
PSBOOK=/usr/bin/psbook
PSNUP=/usr/bin/psnup
PSTOPS=/usr/bin/pstops
if test $# -gt 0; then
for N in $*; do
$PSBOOK -q $N | $PSNUP -q -2 | $PSTOPS -q "2:0,1U(1w,1h)"
done
else
$PSBOOK -q | $PSNUP -q -2 | $PSTOPS -q "2:0,1U(1w,1h)"
fi
|
The same is possible with the following PostScript command
psbook document.ps | pstops -pa4 4:0@.7L(21cm,00)+1L@.7(21cm,14.8cm),2L@.7(21cm,00)+3L@.7(21cm,14.8cm) > output.ps
|
(all on one line).
Explanation of the commands:
psbook rearranges the order of the pages of the original document.ps
file into a new one, appropriate for double-face booklet printing; the
output is then piped (via the | shell command) to pstops that acts on
the pages to create new physical pages containing groups of logical
pages from the old document, according to the following rules:
-pa4 (final paper format is A4)
4: (group pages into 4-page booklets)
0 (page 0 from each group should be:
@.7 (scaled by .7, which is the reciprocal of \sqrt{2}, that is
the ratio between the original A4 paper format and the final
reduced page size, which is an A5, aka half an A4: A4 has
dimension in a \sqrt{2} ratio, and thus the .7)
L (rotated by a quarter of a circle to the left)
(21cm,0) (translated to this position on the new physical page)
)
+ (add the next page spec to this same side of the new physical page)
1 (page 1 from each group should be:
@.7 (scaled by .7, which is the reciprocal of \sqrt{2}, that is
the ratio between the original A4 paper format and the final
reduced page size, which is an A5, aka half an A4: A4 has
dimension in a \sqrt{2} ratio, and thus the .7)
L (rotated by a quarter of a circle to the left)
(21cm,14.8) (translated to this position on the new physical page)
)
, (add the following page specs to the other side of the new physical page)
and so on and so forth.
If the original document is already in half/A4 format (a5paper) you
can leave out the @.7 specs from the page rearrangements.
Merge Postscript Files
You need Ghostscript, which is available here. Merging is possible with the following command:
ghostscript -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pswrite -dBATCH -sOutputFile=out.ps part1.ps part2.ps part3.ps ... |
Resizing Postscript Output
for example to resize a paper in DINA3 format to DINA5 format run:
psresize -Pa3 -pa5 test.ps | lpr |
or from a specific size to a4 paper
psresize -W21cm -H40cm -pa4 test.ps | lpr |
or
psresize -Pa3 -w6cm -w4cm test.ps | lpr |
for an extremely output. For more information run man resize.
|