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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Pamphlet printing
From:       James Hatridge <James.Hatridge () epost ! de>
Date:       2003-01-01 17:59:27
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HI Claus et al...

Just back from a bout of the flu (oh was I sick). Thanks for this I'll look in 
to it. One quick question, what happens to headers? On my pamphlet I have the 
page # and bulletin name on each page.

Thanks

JIM

On Sunday 29 December 2002 22:54, Claus O. Wilke wrote:
> 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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