Re: How do I do n-up printing with my layout?

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 19:11:38 +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> How do I do n-up printing of postscript files in Linux using the layout of 
> my
> choice? I can use psnup to convert a .ps file to one with say, 6 logical 
> pages
> per sheet. But the problem with this is that the layout used, say, x
> logical pages per
> column and y logical pages per row (where x*y=6 in this case) is selected
> by psnup.
> 
> Is there any way by which I can make this layout decision like
> it is done in Windows?

You could maybe work around the problem by going via PDF, i.e.

ps2pdf file.ps
pdfnup --outfile newfile.pdf --nup nxm file.pdf
pdftops newfile.pdf

"nxm" is the nup specification, e.g. 2x3 for two columns by three rows.
You might have to use "--paper" and "--orient" in the pdfnup step to get
exactly the result you want.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian