Re: Printing onto A3

[Russ Ross]

Hi,

I'm not positive about your specific needs, but generally some
combination of the Unix utilities psbook and psnup will do the
kind of layouts you describe.  You create a normal postscript file
then use psbook to rearrange the page order, then use psnup to put
2, 4, or 8 pages onto 1 page.  That might be a good place to start.

Hope that helps,

Russ


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:05:03AM -0000, Ralph Little wrote:
> Hi,
> I know that this is really a Ghostscript/Tex type of questions, but
> given the context, I wondered if you guys had any experience in this
> area.
> 
> I'm considering getting an A3 duplex laser printer to print multi-page
> parts.
> Now, as long as the output is for up to 4 pages, then it is just a case
> of printing 2 pages per sheet on two sides.
> However, for more pages, it gets a bit more complicated.
> 
> For 8 pages, it will require 2 A3 sheets: sheet 1 will have pages 1,8
> and 2,7 and sheet 2 will have pages 3,6 and 4,5, with sheet 2 folded and
> inserted inside sheet 1.
> 
> Our LaserJet 4050TN has a booklet option which does this automatically,
> when using the Windoze printer driver.
> 
> It seems like a standard kind of thing to want to do. Has anybody done
> this from Lilypond?
> 
> Cheers, in advance,
> Ralph
> 
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