PSMULTI && PSFIX
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PSMULTI is a general n-up postscript filter. This is a replacement for
multips originally started to solve a bug in using multips on Sparc
printers. PSmulti requires PERL, if there is sufficient demand for a
c/sh version and I find enough time and will add this as an
alternative front-end later.
PSFIX is a filter to adjust the scaling and orientation of images
while keeping them in the normal printable area of a page.
Both are capable of page selection from DSC conformant documents,
and some less conformant ones. The output of psmulti however is not
strictly conformant but contains enough hints for most previewers
to identify the page breaks.
Both also provide a facility to add special borders to documents. This is
a facility that we have found useful in preparing posters and the
like.
It is possible to feed pipe PSmulti to itself just in case you wandered!
I have only tested this on sun/unix platform, with the NEC SilentWriter
and Sun SPARCPrinter, so be warned!
TO INSTALL
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There is a perl script - Install
Edit the variables declarations at the top
BINDIR - where you want the executable to be put.
LIBDIR - where you want all the psmulti library files put.
MANDIR - where you want the man pages installed
PERLEXE - the execution path for PERL
Now run the script, and that should be it!
Acknowledgements
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TO DO
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. A FiloFax/MiniFax format
. Further Development of the pspp utilities
. Utility for `pspp` to compress the size of PS files (esp. to filter out
unessential comments).
COMMENTS && BUG NOTICES
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TO: D Murray Laing EMAIL: D.N.Laing@uk.ac.edinburgh
Dpt. of Chemical Engineering Tel: +44 (031) 650 4866
University of Edinburgh
Edniburgh
Scotland
