[prog] Combining PostScript documents

Almut Behrens almut-behrens at gmx.net
Fri May 9 15:03:01 EST 2003


> Just to give a little background, I give presentations of technology, and
I 
> write the slides in HTML (thus avoiding proprietary software). I use CSS
to 
> set the font size to be really big, and everything works great: I can
write 
> a slide in HTML in about the time it would take to write a PowerPoint
slide.
> 
> However, one drawback is that I can't print out the slides, say, four per 
> page. But most applications under Linux (including web browsers) allow you
> to "print to a file", writing the PostScript output to a file. If I can 
> concatenate the files and convert the result to PDF, I can configure my 
> printer to print the result at four pages per piece of paper.


you might also want to look into "psmerge" and "psnup" from the 
PSUtils suite by Angus Duggan. (Google will know where to find them,
if they're not installed already...)

Cheers,
Almut


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