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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Pamphlet printing
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-01-05 18:01:42
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On Sunday 05 January 2003 16:15, James Hatridge wrote:
> HI Claus et al....
>
> I've been playing with pstops the past two days. Now I've got a few
> questions. #1 what program do you use to make the text.ps file? I've got
> Open Office, Abiword, and Koffice. None can do anything with ps files.

I am not sure if I understand your question.

But you have to print the document to a file. You will then get a Postscript 
file. (In KWord or AbiWord, I suppose that it should work in OOWriter too.)

As for printing the a Postscript file, you have:
- lpr
- kprinter
- (I suppose that Konqueror can help you too.)

>
(...)
>
> Thanks
>
> JIM

Have a nice day/evening/night!

>
> On Friday 03 January 2003 00:17, Claus O. Wilke wrote:
> > pstops simply rearranges the whole pages. So you prepare your manuscript
> > as if you wanted to print single pages on A4 (or letter, or whatever)
> > paper, including headers, footers, everything, and then you use pstops to
> > rearrange the pages in such a way that you get a pamphlet.
> >
> > In any case, from David Faure's last email on this subject, I take that
> > the kprinter architecture has already built in support for this kind of
> > thing, so you don't even have to call pstops manually.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >   Claus
> >
> > On Wednesday 01 January 2003 09:59, James Hatridge wrote:
> > > 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,14.85
> > > >cm )'
> > > >
> > > > > 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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