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List:       koffice
Subject:    Pamphlet printing
From:       "Claus O. Wilke" <wilke () caltech ! edu>
Date:       2002-12-29 21:54:26
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The pamphlet filter that several people requested on this list can be 
obtained with a single call to pstops. If your original text is in text.ps, 
enter:
cat text.ps | pstops 
'4:-3L@.7(21cm,0)+0L@.7(21cm,14.85cm),1L@.7(21cm,0)+-2L@.7(21cm,14.85cm)' > 
pamphlet.ps
and find your pamphlet in pamphlet.ps.

The numbers in this example work for A4 paper. For US letter paper it is 
somewhat more difficult to do the rescaling trick, because US letter paper 
doesn't obey a nice height to width scaling relationship (when you cut A4 
paper in half, the height to width ratio remains unchanged, whereas when you 
do the same with letter paper, the height to width ratio changes).

I use for letter paper 8in instead of 21cm and 5in instead of 14.85cm, but 
these values may not work optimally for pamphlet printing.

Claus

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