On Friday 10 February 2006 09:29 am, Craig Bradney wrote: > On Friday 10 February 2006 15:12, John R. Culleton wrote: > > On Thursday 09 February 2006 04:02 pm, Craig Bradney wrote: > > > Yes but we don't need a kludgy solution. Ghostscript provides all we > > > really need. > > > > > > Craig > > > > OK let me look at the problem from the other end of the > > telescope. I want to create Scribus pages for parts of the > > document and TeX pages for other parts. The page sizes are all the > > same. In general the tool psmerge will only merge pages created > > with the same tool, and sometimes not then. I can > > import pages into a TeX document, but that is a bit tricky. > > > > Using either PostScript or pdf files (I can convert to either of > > course), what is the most foolproof method of merging the pages? > > > > I am on Slackware Linux. > > Why not generate your TeX pages to PDF and place those PDFs into image > frames in your Scribus document? With a decent resolution they should print > fine. run a few tests and see. > > Craig
I did a little further research and ran some simplistic tests. One recommended technique for merging PostScript Documents is to simplty catenate them with the following line in between each: false 0 startjob pop I tried that with alternating ps files, one printed from Scribus and one from TeX and dvips. Initially gv would only see the first document. So I used ps2pdf. Now the entire document is readable by gv. I reversed the last step and ran pdf2ps. Now the Postscript document is much smaller and it still works. But in gv the margins were pulled in and I had to change it to a letter size document in gv. Now it displayed the results but with poorer type. I think just merging the PostScript pages as above, converting to pdf and leaving it that way is the ticket. But I will need to find out if a print shop can accept the pdf document. The advantaqe of the catenate procedure over the one you propose are: 1.It is easier to merge large multipaged documents, 2.There is no degradation of the fonts. I can see advantages the other way as well, such as page numbering. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf
