I couldn't find the PDF on my computer... but I had better luck finding the
original in Google -- it was from a Linux Gazette article. The article includes
notes that make the PDF more understandable (the link to the PDF is at the
bottom of the article).
http://linuxgazette.net/issue47/nielsen.
Having got your signatures, they then need to be attached
together. For this, it's not ideal if each signature was stapled.
Any recommendations for (a) making the central attachment for a
signature instead of stapling;
Use a thread binding. It's not that difficult to do as soon as you
got acc
I'd welcome views and contributions about the following.
It concerns making a "booklet" out of a PS document.
Which is called "imposition." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Imposition
You can easily do this by manipulating the PostScript file.
The Perl script below suffices.
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> > Excellent idea! And thanks for the snappy response. This would
> > take the problem out of groff which would be a good thing for
> > this application (especially since the amount of creep required
> > =depends on the thickness of paper you are printing to, and I'm
> > much happier not to have
> Now here's the point. Because of the thickness of the paper, the
> middle pages (toward the bottom of the above pile) are puched
> outwards. To tidy this up, you can take a guillotine and slice of
> the protruding bits (of all except the first).
>
> However, this then leaves the print closer to
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:21:17PM -, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 04-Nov-05 Bob Diertens wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:12AM -, Ted Harding wrote:
> >>
> >> [ ... ]
> >
> > You can easily do this by manipulating the PostScript file.
> > The Perl script below suffices.
> >
> > usage
On 04-Nov-05 Bob Diertens wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:12AM -, Ted Harding wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'd welcome views and contributions about the following.
>>
>> It concerns making a "booklet" out of a PS document.
>>
>> 1. Background:
>> If you have (say) a 16-page PS document,
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:12AM -, Ted Harding wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'd welcome views and contributions about the following.
>
> It concerns making a "booklet" out of a PS document.
>
> 1. Background:
> If you have (say) a 16-page PS document, you can run it
> through the following pipe
Hi Folks,
I'd welcome views and contributions about the following.
It concerns making a "booklet" out of a PS document.
1. Background:
If you have (say) a 16-page PS document, you can run it
through the following pipelikne:
cat doc.ps | psbook | psnup -2 > doclet.ps
and doclet.ps will have a
