From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3405 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johannes H?sing Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texexec: can it crop? Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:30:34 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20001122223034.A909@ruhrau.de> References: <001501c05486$213d7300$7429883e@chris> Reply-To: johannes.huesing@ruhrau.de NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394138 16735 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:28:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXT Mailing List In-Reply-To: <001501c05486$213d7300$7429883e@chris>; from chris.tipper@e-conomist.fsnet.co.uk on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:14:20PM -0000 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3405 On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:14:20PM -0000, Christopher Tipper wrote: [...] > > the pstops utility is impossible to figure from the documentation, Don't do it unjust. I figured it out from the manpage and once you understand it it works black magic. You want something alog the lines of pstops '4:0@.5(0,14.85cm)+1@.5(10.5cm,14.85cm)+2@.5(0,0)+3@.5(10.5cm,0)' infile.ps outfile.ps Looks scary? It is very shorthand but really flexible. It tells your ghostscript engine to process four pages at once ("4:"), numbered 0, 1, 2, and 3. The placements of these single pages on the new page would be separated by plus signs. A single placement tells ghostscript something about the size ("@.5", that means, half the size), the orientation (left out which defaults to upright, but [L]eft, [R]ight and [U]pside down is possible too), and the offset (in round parenthesis with Postscript points as the default unit). If you wanted to have spread the output on multiple pages you'd have to separate the pages by commas. Try to work out what each single entry means and you'll be able to perform many useful things. Greetings Johannes -- Johannes Hüsing