Package: poster
Version: 1:20050907-1
Severity: wishlist
poster duplicates all input for every page in the poster, so a 3x3
poster will take up 9 times the original PostScript code.
I have made a patch that solves this.
/Ole
--- poster-20050907/poster.c 2008-06-10 19:10:13.000000000 +0200
+++ poster-nodupPS/poster.c 2008-06-10 19:14:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -831,6 +831,7 @@
printf ("%% Print poster %s in %dx%d tiles with %.3g magnification\n",
infile, nrows, ncols, scale);
}
+static void definepage();
/*********************************************/
/* output the poster, create tiles if needed */
@@ -840,6 +841,7 @@
int row, col, page;
printprolog();
+ definepage();
if ( pages == NULL )
for ( page = 0; page < number_pages; page++ )
for (row = 1; row <= nrows; row++)
@@ -977,6 +979,18 @@
printf( "%%%%EndSetup\n");
}
+/*******************************************************/
+/* output PS prolog of the scaling and tiling routines */
+/*******************************************************/
+static void definepage()
+{
+ printf("/theoriginalpage {\n");
+ printf("%%%%BeginDocument: %s\n", infile);
+ printfile(0);
+ printf("\n%%%%EndDocument\n");
+ printf("} def\n");
+}
+
/*****************************/
/* output one tile at a time */
/*****************************/
@@ -988,9 +1002,7 @@
printf ("\n%%%%Page: (%d,%d) %d\n", pagetoprint+1, ((row-1)*ncols+col),
page);
printf ("%d %d tileprolog\n", row, col);
- printf ("%%%%BeginDocument: %s\n", infile);
- printfile (pagetoprint);
- printf ("\n%%%%EndDocument\n");
+ printf ("theoriginalpage\n");
printf ("tileepilog\n");
page++;
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages poster depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpaper1 1.1.23 library for handling paper charact
poster recommends no packages.
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