Re: Printing onto A3

2004-01-12 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, To answer my own question and for the benefit of others: I found an interesting idea on somebody's website: http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/misc/shellcmds.txt along with some other interesting PS type jobs. At the bottom, there is mention of some tools from the psutils package, namely psbook and psnu

Re: Printing onto A3

2004-01-09 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Hello, Ralph: It seems like a standard kind of thing to want to do. Has anybody done this from Lilypond? Not directly in Lilypond... However, I did write a small Java class that does what you want from an original PDF source (controlling the open source iText Java-PDF classes), and I use it all

Re: Printing onto A3

2004-01-09 Thread Russ Ross
Hi, I'm not positive about your specific needs, but generally some combination of the Unix utilities psbook and psnup will do the kind of layouts you describe. You create a normal postscript file then use psbook to rearrange the page order, then use psnup to put 2, 4, or 8 pages onto 1 page. Tha

Printing onto A3

2004-01-09 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, I know that this is really a Ghostscript/Tex type of questions, but given the context, I wondered if you guys had any experience in this area. I'm considering getting an A3 duplex laser printer to print multi-page parts. Now, as long as the output is for up to 4 pages, then it is just a case o