postscript purgatory & the callsheet - (long and twisty with links)

[David J Patrick]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 08:50, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> David J Patrick wrote:
>  >
>  > Has anyone got a handle on this ps stuff ?
> 
> In a past life, I was a prepress systems hack. Ah, the joys of finding 
> the error in 8GB of PostScript ...
> 
> > Q#1
> > if a2ps is the heart of the psutils
> 
> is it? By psutils, I tend to mean the specific package by Angus Duggan 
> of Harlequin Systems.

Me too, while they may be from different sources, they are almost always
mentioned together. 
> 
> Doesn't a2ps convert ASCII to PostScript? Unless you want to print the 
> source to your PostScript, you might not want to do this.

Nope ! That's "anything"2ps, ascii, html, tex (I think) other ps etc.
> 
> The way I'd do it (from memory, away from a system with psutils) would 
> be something like:
> 
> psbook -s4 filename.ps | psnup -2 | psselect -o | lp
> (flip the paper stack and reload it)
> psbook -s4 filename.ps | psnup -2 | psselect -e | lp

I'll give that a shot.

> If you are printing HTML to PS, you might find htmldoc to be more 
> useful. It'll be quicker, at the very least. It may even do the n-up 
> stuff you need.

I've used it in the past, the gui that is, I'll experiment with the CLI.
> 
> If this becomes more than a proof-of-concept, you really want a real 
> duplex printer.

yeah, well ya work with what ya got ;-)
> 
> Sounds like an interesting project.
Thanks! Even the badly formatted prototype pages are proving very
useful. The ultimate end goal is to have the days core info at hand,
without the need to go to the box untill evening, when I will input the
days new items and changes. During the day the palm is the active
platform.

djp

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