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- Short: Mpage 2.5 (68k+PPC)
- Author: Mark Hahn, Andreas Kleinert (port)
- Uploader: info@ar-kleinert.de
- Type: text/misc
-
- Amiga 68k/PPC port of Mpage.
-
- Mpage is a program to reduce and print multiple pages of text per
- sheet on a PostScript compatible printer.
- It also has limited functionality to do the same with postscript files itself.
-
- The PPC binaries have the ".elf" extension and are useable
- from Shell when being used with ppc.library V46+ or
- Frank Wille's emulation for WOS (V0.6b or higher).
-
- Have fun.
-
- Usage (for example):
-
- MPage TESTFILE >prt:
- MPage TESTFILE >T:DESTFILE
-
- --
- ARK, 25/Jul/99
-
- *************************************************************
-
- COPYRIGHT:
-
- Mpage and all the files distributed with mpage are covered by copyright:
-
- Copyright (c) 1994-1997 Marcel J.E. Mol, The Netherlands
- Copyright (c) 1988 Mark P. Hahn, Herndon, Virginia
-
- Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim
- copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided
- that this copyright notice is preserved, and that the
- distributor grants the recipient permission for further
- redistribution as permitted by this notice.
-
- Mpage was written by:
- ...!uunet!\ Mark Hahn, Sr Systems Engineer
- >pyrdc!mark Pyramid Technology Corporation
- ...!pyramid!/ Vienna, Va (703)848-2050
-
- marcel@mesa.nl
- MESA Consulting B.V.
- Voorburg
- The Netherlands
- Phone: +31-(0)15-3105252
- Mobile:+31-(0)6-54724868
- Fax: +31-(0)70-3873683
-
- =================================================================
- DESCRIPTION:
-
- Mpage is a program to reduce and print multiple pages of text per
- sheet on a PostScript compatible printer.
- It also has limited functionality to do the same with postscript files itself.
-
- The following are the files you should have for mpage.
-
- README Notes and descriptions, this file
- README.OS2 OS/2 port description
- Copyright Copyright notice
- CHANGES Change storys
- Makefile The Makefile
- TODO Wish List for changes
- FAQ Useful tips and hints
- NEWS Global changes, User visible changes
- Mpage.lsm LSM file for mpage
- args.c Command line and options processing
- encoding.h Definition of internal default character encoding
- file.c Generic file handeling
- glob.c Global variable setup
- mpage.h Definitions
- mpage.c Main Control
- page.c Page layout routines
- post.c PostScript file processing
- sample.c Prints sample page layout pages
- text.c Text file processing
- mpage.1 Manual page
-
- fix Fix to mpage that makes it work with ArborText
- All.chars Test file containing all ascii characters
- Encodings Directory with character encoding library files
- Characters List of postscript character encoding names
- Encoding.format Description on how to create character encoding
- library files
- gencodes.c Util program to build All.chars file
- Test Directory with test pages
-
- OS2 Contrib to build and use mpage on OS/2
- Contrib Directory with contributions by others
-
-
- INSTRUCTIONS:
-
- All you should need to do is run make.
- This will create mpage and a program called msample. Mpage is
- the program to print n-up pages. Msample prints a sample outline. I
- used it for debugging the placement of the layout. It is also handy
- for other layout purposes. It accepts all the arguments that mpage
- does, but does not print files.
-
- As a quick sample try:
-
- "mpage mp_args.c"
- or
- "mpage -8 mp_post.c"
- or
- "groff -man mpage.1 | mpage -2"
-
-
- The manual page, mpage.1, formats with UCB or ATT manual macros.
-
-
-
- USING MPAGE:
-
- You will find that it takes a while on an Apple LW or Apple LW+ to
- print 4 pages per sheet, It takes "a good long time" for 8 pages.
- Reduced PostScript documents take a while too. (A rule of thumb might
- be 4 times as long for 4-pages-per-sheet reduction :-) On a QMS 8ppm
- printer 4 pages per sheet is about the same speed and other forms of
- "1-up" output. mpage prints some timing information back from the
- printer so you can measure the time required for full jobs.
-
-
-
- ADMINISTRATORS:
-
- As a printer administrator you should see the wish list for caveats
- and information about future versions. I still have work to do to
- make mpage more "administrator friendly", but figured that I'd better
- get what's been done out the door.
-
-
-
- BUG REPORTS:
-
- Mpage is supported but this is done is pare time. So please sent in
- bug reports, request or other things related to mpage and once in
- a while I'll release a version...
- If you have a problem please send me a complete description of the
- symptoms. Please include the brand name of your printer, a copy of
- the input file (especially if it is with PostScript input), and a
- description of what to look for on the output. If your printer has an
- error log, please include as much of it as is revalant. In general,
- the more clearly organized information I have, the easier it will be
- for me. And please do not forget to mention the mpage version you're
- using. Also the ouput generated by your mpage might come in handy...
-
-
-
- MAKING CHANGES:
-
- Please, if you make any improvements, send them back to me so that I
- can include them in future versions. Also I would solicit comments as
- to the usefulness, and effectiveness of mpage. Let me know what you
- like or dislike and feel free to ask any questions you have concerning
- this mpage distribution. Thank you!
-
- -Marcel Mol
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Marcel J.E. Mol phone: (+31) 015-3105252
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Delft University of Technology | MESA Consulting BV
- Netherlands | Networking and Unix Consultancy
- marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl | marcel@mesa.nl
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- They couldn't think of a number, so they gave me a name!
- -- Rupert Hine
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
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- 18842 3582 80.9% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +args.c
- 10856 4690 56.7% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +CHANGES
- 300 206 31.3% 25-Jul-99 14:06:24 +CHANGES.AMIGA
- 3249 1409 56.6% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +Characters
- 1057 553 47.6% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +mergeps.lex
- 1486 544 63.3% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +mergeps.txt
- 784 335 57.2% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +mfix.c
- 573 344 39.9% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +README
- 23283 6970 70.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +test.ps
- 1593 716 55.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +mp
- 432 296 31.4% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +psprint
- 1292 608 52.9% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +Copyright
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- 4554 1936 57.4% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +encoding.h
- 4400 1827 58.4% 25-Jul-99 13:27:36 +encoding.h.PC850
- 2829 1297 54.1% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +CP850.PC
- 2884 1377 52.2% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +ISO+STD+OTH
- 2826 1343 52.4% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +ISO-8859.1
- 2722 1246 54.2% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +ISO-Latin.1
- 3754 1739 53.6% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +ISO-Latin.2
- 1139 580 49.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:36 +FAQ
- 9291 2731 70.6% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +file.c
- 339 169 50.1% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +gencodes.c
- 16081 4242 73.6% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +glob.c
- 4639 1952 57.9% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +Makefile
- 48704 23239 52.2% 25-Jul-99 14:04:08 +mpage
- 11378 4476 60.6% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +mpage.1
- 10085 3258 67.6% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +mpage.c
- 128402 48371 62.3% 25-Jul-99 13:54:40 +mpage.elf
- 10437 3590 65.6% 25-Jul-99 13:41:28 +mpage.h
- 835 389 53.4% 25-Jul-99 13:39:12 +mpage.info
- 867 465 46.3% 25-Jul-99 13:27:36 +Mpage.lsm
- 22184 11863 46.5% 25-Jul-99 14:04:14 +msample
- 66468 26500 60.1% 25-Jul-99 13:56:44 +msample.elf
- 835 391 53.1% 25-Jul-99 13:43:54 +msample.info
- 645 374 42.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:36 +NEWS
- 200 166 17.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +lpr.cmd
- 65 65 0.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +mpage.def
- 69 69 0.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +msample.def
- 10791 2041 81.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +page.c
- 23173 5772 75.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +post.c
- 5841 2487 57.4% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +README
- 1922 1077 43.9% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +README.OS2
- 2755 734 73.3% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +sample.c
- 342 219 35.9% 25-Jul-99 13:36:32 +SCOPTIONS
- 4780 2045 57.2% 25-Jul-99 13:39:06 +smakefile
- 4983 2068 58.4% 25-Jul-99 13:57:00 +smakefile.ppc
- 50 41 18.0% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +tabtest
- 415 154 62.8% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +testpage
- 13239 3840 70.9% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +text.c
- 5072 2460 51.4% 25-Jul-99 13:27:34 +TODO
- 6547 2755 57.9% 25-Jul-99 14:12:30 +mpage.readme
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- 501477 190413 62.0% 25-Jul-99 16:58:38 53 files
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