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- From: callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joel E Callan)
- Subject: Re: 2up, double-sided printing
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.001817.12206@uwm.edu>
- Originator: callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <sdorner-070992165652@dorner.slip.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:18:17 GMT
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- From article <sdorner-070992165652@dorner.slip.uiuc.edu>, by sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steven Dorner):
- > I have a very large (500+ pages) document (the AppleEvents registry), which
- > I would like to print. However, printing this single-sided at full size
- > would take an entire ream of paper, which is unacceptable.
- >
- > What I would really like is to be able to print this document 2-up, on both
- > sides of a sheet. That way, I use 125 pieces of paper, not 500. If I
- > could simply manage to print it 2up OR double-sided, that would be less
- > good but still helpful.
- >
- > I have tried importing the document into WriteNow (which could print it
- > double-sided), but it doesn't import cleanly, and I'm chary of printing it
- > out only to find many pages ruined.
- >
- > I have tried post-editing the PostScript; while I can make this work for
- > normal PS output, it doesn't work for this MS-Word doc (not surprising
- > :-().
- >
- > I tried changing the source document. Unfortunately, it uses many dozens
- > of styles, I haven't the foggiest idea how to use MS Word, and so it's
- > basically hopeless.
- >
- > If anyone knows of any way I can get this monster printed out 2up or
- > 2-sided or (preferably) both, I would be very grateful. I have a copy of
- > MS-Word (legal, but no manual), MPW, Perl, WriteNow, and some knowledge of
- > PostScript (though I lost my Red Book when I changed jobs). I have ETO
- > (but not AppleLink, so the copy in AppleLink format on ETO is of limited
- > use, since it is evidently too big for the freeware Glue viewer). I also
- > have a PS Printer (a Personal LW NTR, should that matter).
- >
- > Suggestions? Utilities? Ps files of the even and odd sides of the AE
- > Registry printed 2up :-)?
- >
- > Please email, and I will post a solution if I find one.
- >
- > --
- > Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
- > Giving one of them new-fangled Mac newsreaders a try.
-
-
- Steve,
-
- You might just ftp to sumex-aim.stanford.edu and get the following from
- the info-mac directory: /util/save-a-tree-152.hqx
-
- Save-a-tree will allow you to print multiple pages on a single page of
- paper (hence the name). Of course, the type is small, but what did you
- expect when you try to cram more text onto a single page? With a laser
- printer, there is really no problem in viewing the text (save those with
- vision problems).
-
- I think that save a tree will do what you want, and do the environment
- some good at the same time.
-
- Joel Callan callan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- --
- In the meantime, happy computing!
- May you sit on the tack of success and rise to the occassion...
-
- /`-_ !!!
-