Re: [expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?
Easy, just open the pdf with kprinter, and select the option... works right away on PDF files. On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 23:53, Erik Laxdal wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:49 pm, SainTiss wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an application which can handle resizing pages of a pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on each printer page... Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that... Well, actually, kghostview can in theory, since there is such a setting in the printer dialog, but it's just being done the wrong way, with pages cut in half and such... Thanks Hans Why not use the command line method. With whatever tool you like to use, convert the .pdf file to a .ps file (printing the .pdf to a file from Acroread will do). Then at the command line use the following commands. To convert your .ps so there are 4 logical pages to 1 physical page use: psnup -4 infile.ps outfile.ps depending upon your page sizes you may need to add input/output page size and orientation parameters. Check the man page (man psnup) for these, as there are many possible combinations. Then you can either view the output file (to ensure it is correct) and print from there or just print the file from the command line as follows: lpr outfile.ps Erik __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?
Yeah, I noticed that, as I mentioned in my original mail, but that didn't work well... In the end, I managed to do it with mpage: mpage -a -o -R -m50 tools1.ps fix.ps Cheers, Hans On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 11:28, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Easy, just open the pdf with kprinter, and select the option... works right away on PDF files. On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 23:53, Erik Laxdal wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:49 pm, SainTiss wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an application which can handle resizing pages of a pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on each printer page... Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that... Well, actually, kghostview can in theory, since there is such a setting in the printer dialog, but it's just being done the wrong way, with pages cut in half and such... Thanks Hans Why not use the command line method. With whatever tool you like to use, convert the .pdf file to a .ps file (printing the .pdf to a file from Acroread will do). Then at the command line use the following commands. To convert your .ps so there are 4 logical pages to 1 physical page use: psnup -4 infile.ps outfile.ps depending upon your page sizes you may need to add input/output page size and orientation parameters. Check the man page (man psnup) for these, as there are many possible combinations. Then you can either view the output file (to ensure it is correct) and print from there or just print the file from the command line as follows: lpr outfile.ps Erik __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Hans Schippers 1LIC INF UIA 2002-2003 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?
Hi, I'm looking for an application which can handle resizing pages of a pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on each printer page... Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that... Well, actually, kghostview can in theory, since there is such a setting in the printer dialog, but it's just being done the wrong way, with pages cut in half and such... Thanks Hans -- In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? Hans Schippers 1LIC INF UIA 2002-2003 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 8:49 pm, SainTiss wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an application which can handle resizing pages of a pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on each printer page... Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that... Well, actually, kghostview can in theory, since there is such a setting in the printer dialog, but it's just being done the wrong way, with pages cut in half and such... As an experiment I tried it in Acroread. Scaling to print an A4 display to A5 paper is easy, but scaling to put several pages on one seems to be done only by the printer. I would imagine that this means that using this printer driver I would be able to do the same from any app that lets me access the printer setup, as KDE apps do. FWIW, my first attempt printed wrongly because I had incorrect settings, so I got 4 pages, but they were printed two on top of two - not at all the intention. Assuming that your printer has this facility, use the print setup to get your output. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:49 pm, SainTiss wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an application which can handle resizing pages of a pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on each printer page... Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that... Well, actually, kghostview can in theory, since there is such a setting in the printer dialog, but it's just being done the wrong way, with pages cut in half and such... Thanks Hans Why not use the command line method. With whatever tool you like to use, convert the .pdf file to a .ps file (printing the .pdf to a file from Acroread will do). Then at the command line use the following commands. To convert your .ps so there are 4 logical pages to 1 physical page use: psnup -4 infile.ps outfile.ps depending upon your page sizes you may need to add input/output page size and orientation parameters. Check the man page (man psnup) for these, as there are many possible combinations. Then you can either view the output file (to ensure it is correct) and print from there or just print the file from the command line as follows: lpr outfile.ps Erik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to print 4 pdf pages on 1 printer page?
man mpage On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:49, SainTiss wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an application which can handle resizing pages of a pdf document, so that when printing it, there'd be let's say 4 pages on each printer page... Acroread, kghostview, nor ghostview seem to be able to do that... Well, actually, kghostview can in theory, since there is such a setting in the printer dialog, but it's just being done the wrong way, with pages cut in half and such... Thanks Hans -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to print to pdf ?!
Hallo! I need to print from openoffice to a pdf file but I cannot set pdf pseudo-printer to be the default one... any idea?? THANKS!;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to print to pdf ?!
Es Dijous 11 Abril 2002 13:50, en Joan Tur va escriure: I need to print from openoffice to a pdf file but I cannot set pdf pseudo-printer to be the default one... any idea?? Now I've found the print to file option, then I've choosen to PDF and printed to file... But the PDF I get is wrong. I cannot open it with xpdf nor Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 (for windows) 8-? Thanks in advance. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to print to pdf ?!
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:37:23 +0200, Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Es Dijous 11 Abril 2002 13:50, en Joan Tur va escriure: I need to print from openoffice to a pdf file but I cannot set pdf pseudo-printer to be the default one... any idea?? Now I've found the print to file option, then I've choosen to PDF and printed to file... But the PDF I get is wrong. I cannot open it with xpdf nor Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 (for windows) 8-? I don't know how OpenOffice.org does it, but I can give you a generic method to create a PDF. In your application (not necessarily OpenOffice.org), choose to print to a postscript file. Then open a console and use ps2pdf (or ps2pdf13) to convert the postscript file to a PDF. Be careful not to specify any filenames that contain spaces -- GhostScript (the app that does the conversion) will choke on them. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan 4|)V4|\|C3D l3e+ $peA| i$ whEn J00 +4lK L!K3 t|-|15. t0 u|\|d3r$+@|\|D jOo |\/|u5+ be 1337. 1f J00 4r3 NO+ lEe+ jOO C@|\|N07 5p3A| 0r ReAd +|-|I5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
