On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:55:49 -0400 Joel Hammer wrote: > I am still (three nights) trying to reformat some postscript docs. > I have tried convert, mpage and now psnup (One evening for each). The output > I get is not what I want, to say the least. Could someone just publish the > command with psnup which will put four postscript pages onto one letter sized > postscript page? I still cannot even imagine the command to center the stuff > on one page. psnup -4 user-guide.ps test.ps worked fine for me. The problem may be that line in the man page that states : The input PostScript file should follow the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions. I know a tiny bit of PostScript, and I believe that means that the file must contain some global info like : %%Pages: 21 %%Page: 2 2 %%BeginPageSetup stuff.... %%EndPageSetup more stuff.... %%PageTrailer etc etc etc > So far, brute force (cutting and pasting with scissors and xerox and tape) > is the only way I get can get any reformatting done. > <RANT>Note, I have RTFM on psnup. The pathetic instructions that come with man > psnup only include one very complicated example, not at all helpful to a first > time user. It is obvious that the author doesn't care if anyone else in the world > actually uses psnup. It is the same old story with linux. The documentation > just negates what otherwise might be a great piece of software. > </RANT> > Thanks, > Joel -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
