Re: Bug#161949: ITP: psconcat -- Easy concatenation of postscript-based file formats
On Monday 23 September 2002 21:59, Neil Spring wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:08:11AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu> [2002.09.23.0216
> >
> > +0200]:
> >> How does psconcat differ from:
> >> a2ps -1 a.ps b.ps -o concatenated.ps
> >> ?
> >
> > Probably not. But when I needed this concatenation once, nobody on
> > this list and two others mentioned it, and I didn't know.
>
> Sorry I didn't see your earlier message.
>
> > So you think I should keep it out of the archive?
>
> I just wanted to make sure you knew there was another tool
> to do roughly the same thing before deciding to maintain a
> small script. I think it's up to you to decide whether it
> should go in the archive.
>
> IMHO, the real problem is that psmerge doesn't do what folks
> want and alternatives that work, like a2ps, are hard to
> find.
Just to add another voice here:
Being not too knowledgeable as far as postscript stuff is concerned, I
encountered exactly this problem just recently when I desperately tried to
merge ps files and simply failed after I had tried psmerge and even resorted
to handediting the ps files for some time with limited success.
Therefore I think that it would be great if this script would end up in the
main distribution, preferably with a small reference to a2ps as suggested by
Neil.
cheers,
Yven
PS: just saw your followup; well I'd still be in favor of adding it, simply
to make finding this functionality easier, but integrating it into psutils
and adding some sensible keywords to the description might of course do the
trick as well.
--
Yven Johannes Leist - leist@beldesign.de
http://www.leist.beldesign.de
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