Re: Quirks of the printing industry.

Subject: Re: Quirks of the printing industry.
From: Christian Leutloff <leutloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Jan 1998 22:26:56 +0100
Mbox-line: From leutloff@sundancer.oche.de Mon Jan 26 22:26:56 1998
Daniel Speck <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Mitch C. Amiano wrote:
 
> A while back I worked for a company that needed this sort of functionality. I
> wrote a series of programs that read conforming PostScript files and manipulated
> them in various ways (e.g., reverse the order of pages, construct "printer pairs",
> construct "reader pairs", produce n-up pages, etc.) There is commercial software
> that will read PostScript and do this imposition stuff for you. I wouldn't try to
> do it in DSSSL.

there are free tools too:

$ dpkg -s psutils
Package: psutils
Version: 1.17-1
Description: A collection of PostScript document handling utilities
 This collection of utilities is for manipulating PostScript documents.
 Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including arrangement
 into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for n-up printing.
                                             
Bye
  Christian

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