Re: [vox-tech] printing 4 pages per single page
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Re: [vox-tech] printing 4 pages per single page
The way I use pstops to crop the pages is:
pstops '0@1.1(-1.2in,-1.3in)' "in.ps" "out.ps"
where 1.1 is the zoom factor, -1.2in is the X offset, and -1.3in is the Y
offset. It's a bit lame when u just wanna cut off the margins, but I'm
sure you can figure out the mathematical formula for converting margins to
zoom/shift factors... =P
1.3, -1.3in, and -1.3in seems to work alright for LaTeX documents with
large margins, but I'm sure you can optimize it more if you really wanted
to.
-Mark
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Henry House wrote:
> På 2005-12-10, skrev Peter Jay Salzman:
> [...]
> > What I'd really like is some utility that allows me to cut the margins of a
> > pdf or ps file. This would allow me to use a larger scale factor and not
> > have the pages overlap each other.
> >
> > I'm thinking something like gimp's crop tool. Its "autoshrink" option,
> > which auto-crops to a box that *just barely* surrounds the content, would
> > be ideal. Of course, I can't use gimp on a 100 page postscript document,
> > but this is what I'd like to do.
> >
> > Are there any utilities out there that would:
> >
> > 1. crop blank margins of a ps or pdf file
> >
> > 2. crop margin dimensions specified by me (not ideal, but I could take
> > out a ruler and measure the margins myself).
>
> I believe that pstops(1) could do this for you. Good luck figuring out how
> to use it, though. ;-)
>
> Re-writing the a postscript file via fixps(1) (which is just a shell-script
> wrapper around gs) in my experience usually has the effect of trimming the
> blank spaces from the margins. The smarter way would be to call gs directly
> using your own custom shell script, but I just use fixps because the
> interface of gs is unfamiliar to me.
>
> Besides psnup, another utility for tiling multiple logical pages per sheet
> is mpage(1).
>
> I hope this helps!
>
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