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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+ Printing Selected Pages
+ =======================
+
+
+ Sometimes you want to print not a complete PostScript document but just some
+ selected pages. Here are several options.
+
+ o DSC Conforming Documents
+
+ In a DSC (Document Structuring Conventions) conforming document all pages
+ are individually accessible, clearly delineated by DSC comments. You can
+ extract the pages you want to print before you send the result to a
+ PostScript printer or interpreter. A utility for extracting these pages is
+ pssplit:
+
+ pssplit.exe -- DOS executable
+ pssplit.c -- C source
+
+ o Non DSC Conforming Documents: PostScript Level 2
+
+ When there are no comments in the document to separate the document in
+ pages, then the only solution is to have the entire document processed by a
+ PostScript interpreter. However, PostScript Level 2 keeps track of the
+ number of pages it has output, and you can redefine the output routine to
+ tell PostScript to discard of the pages you don't want. A program that adds
+ the necessary code to achieve this is pspages:
+
+ pspages.exe -- DOS executable
+ pspages.c -- C source
+
+ o Non DSC Conforming Documents: Ghostscript
+
+ With Ghostscript, instead of having the output sent to a printer, you can
+ send it to a file instead. In this case, you can tell Ghostscript to divide
+ the output in one file per page. Then you can copy the files you want to
+ the printer. Here is an example:
+
+ gs -r300 -sDEVICE=djet500 -sOutputFile=file.%03d -dNOPAUSE file.ps -c quit
+
+ This will produce files like file.001, file.002, etc.
+
+
+--
+Peter Kleiweg http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/
+
+
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