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From: San Diego

Registered: 2003-04-18

Posts: 166

need hardcore postscript help! - printing to 11x17 using psutils

Hi Archers!

I need some serious postscript help.

I'm trying to layout a document using psutils into a booklet format on 11x17 paper.

There's a laserjet 8550 here that prints tabloid 11x17.

I print the doc from openoffice to a pdf, then psbook it and psnup it into the correct format with this script:

pdftops ~/cups-pdf/job_565-RockCreek.pdf rc-pdfto.ps

psbook -s24 rc-pdfto.ps rc-book.ps

psnup -Pletter -ptabloid -2 -l rc-book.ps rc-nup.ps

Everything looks good in gv (once i set page and orientation). However I think the wrong default page and orientation in the ps file is what is causing the problem.

When I print to the printer or to a pdf it comes out on a letter size peice of paper instead of the needed 11x17 8-(

Even though I psnup -ptabloid the printed pdf still has letter:

[johnea@recube Mark]$ pdfinfo page4-11x17.pdf
PARSING /usr/share/poppler/nameToUnicode/Thai
PARSING /usr/share/poppler/nameToUnicode/Bulgarian
Producer:       ESP Ghostscript 815.04
CreationDate:   Sun Sep  2 09:44:03 2007
ModDate:        Sun Sep  2 09:44:03 2007
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      599235 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.2

Can anyone advise me how to MAKE this REALLY go on to tabloid paper?

Or perhaps even aim me at some industrial strength postfix forum somewhere?

Thanks for any help!

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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: need hardcore postscript help! - printing to 11x17 using psutils

Hello,

OpenOffice should also be able to print to a .ps-file directly, without creating a pdf-file. I don't know if this helps, but please give it a try.

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: need hardcore postscript help! - printing to 11x17 using psutils

Hello,

the option -P is for telling psnup the desired printer. Do you have a printer named letter?