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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/support/pssplit/README b/support/pssplit/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a4eda5afc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/support/pssplit/README @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ + + + 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/ + + + |