You could also have a look at manpage of psbook. It makes a nice
booklet from postscript file.

Ciao,
        Andreas

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:54:40AM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:50:23PM +0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Horace G. Friend III thought:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > This is off-topic but I need a quick fix so I hope you'll oblige. 
> > I still do double-sided printing in windoze because of my printer
> > (HP710C). :(  I'd like to convert several man pages into plain 
> > text and save it to my windoze dir. How can I do that?
> > 
> > I've tried this command as suggested by man man page but doesn't work.
> > 
> > man procmail | col -b > procmail.txt 
> > 
> try
> 
> man -t <manpage> > <manpage.ps>
> 
> you get postscript out of that.  I use mpage and a wrapper script to do
> double-sided printing since the printer is no longer connected directly to
> the Windoze box.  It works in much the same way as the windows
> double-sided driver but can print multiple pages per sheet of paper (very
> handy for printing web sites!).  Shout if you'd like it to try out
> (Imagine, not having to boot windoze just to print something!).
> 
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