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- From: kruel@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel)
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- Organization: Institut f. Physikalische Chemie
- Subject: booklet printing with dvips/psnup: poor output
- Keywords: dvips, psnup, postscript
- Summary: resizing A4 -> A5 using dvips/psnup gives poor output
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.10 Rev. Dec 7 1992
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 14:59:26 MET
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- Dear colleagues,
-
- I have a problem with printing a document in 2up style, i.e. two A4
- pages resized to A5 in landscape orientation on one A4 page.
-
- I use `psutils', namely the combination:
-
- psbook doc.ps | psnup -2 > doc_2up.ps
-
- Everything works fine except that the output on a SUN SparcPrinter
- is very poor. The characters come out cribbled, e.g. you can't
- recognize the vertical bar of an `e' and so on.
-
- The PostScript file `doc.ps' has been produced by dvips (5.47) from
- an ordinary `doc.dvi' using 300dpi.
-
- So here goes my question:
-
- What may be wrong ? How could I improve the resolution ? Should I
- get a newer dvips ? Or change the resolution to 400dpi ? Is there any
- hidden feature in the `psutils'-code or even some better stuff to do
- that ?
-
- Thanks for any help,
- Thomas.
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- Thomas-Martin Kruel Institut f. Physikalische Chemie / Universitaet Wuerzburg
- Marcusstr. 9-11, D-8700 Wuerzburg, Tel. +49 931 31579
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