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- [November 5, 1992 version of psutils.]
- ===== The comp.lang.postcript FAQ description follows: =====
- psutils
- is a set of useful PostScript utilities: epsffit, getafm, psbook,
- psnup, psselect, pstops, and showchar. By Angus Duggan
-
- What:
- Converts-ASCII-to-PostScript, Page-Reordering
-
- Status:
- free
-
- Platforms:
- UNIX
-
- Get-From:
- ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk (129.215.160.5) in the file
- pub/ajcd/psutils.tar.Z
-
-
- ===== The official psutils README follows: =====
- PostScript Utilities Angus Duggan 7 April 1992
-
- This shar file contains some utilities for manipulating PostScript documents.
- Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including arrangement into
- signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for 2up/4up/8up/9up printing.
-
- ENVIRONMENT
-
- These utilities have been compiled and run on Sun-3 and Sun-4 machines under
- SunOS 4.1.1 and 4.0.1, and on HP9000/375 machines under HPUX 7.0
-
- FILES
-
- The files contained are:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1668 Oct 27 18:50 LICENSE
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 643 Apr 7 1992 Makefile
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 3167 Oct 27 18:51 README
- lrwxrwxrwx 1 ajcd 9 Oct 27 18:49 appledict.ps -> md68.0.ps
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 3673 Jul 12 1991 epsffit.c
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 362 Apr 7 1992 fixfmps
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 1329 Jul 17 12:49 fixmacps
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 1165 Jul 16 1991 fixpspps
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 525 Apr 7 1992 fixwpps
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 4706 Sep 3 1991 getafm
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 31021 Oct 27 18:48 md68.0.ps
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 35328 Oct 27 18:48 md71.0.ps
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1066 Jul 12 1991 psbook.1
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1990 Jul 12 1991 psbook.c
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 2057 Jul 16 11:06 psnup
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 2152 Sep 5 1991 psnup.1
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1509 Jul 12 1991 psselect.1
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 4621 Jul 12 1991 psselect.c
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 3209 Mar 23 1992 pstops.1
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 9416 Apr 7 1992 pstops.c
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 5286 Oct 27 18:31 psutil.c
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 682 Sep 5 1991 psutil.h
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 2552 Sep 5 1991 showchar
-
- PROGRAMS
-
- psbook rearranges pages into signatures
- psselect selects pages and page ranges
- pstops performs general page rearrangement and selection
- psnup uses pstops to merge multiple pages per sheet
- epsffit fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box
-
- psselect in modeled after Chris Torek's dviselect program, and psbook is
- modeled after Tom Rokicki's dvidvi program. psbook is modeled on my own
- dvibook program, which borrows heavily from Chris Torek's dviselect.
-
- SCRIPTS
-
- getafm (sh) outputs PostScript to retrieve AFM file from printer
- showchar (sh) outputs PostScript to draw a character with metric info
- fixfmps (perl) filter to fix framemaker documents so that psselect etc. work
- fixwpps (perl) filter to fix WordPerfect documents so that psselect etc. work
- fixmacps (perl) filter to fix Macintosh documents with saner version of md
- fixpspps (perl) filter to fix PSPrint PostScript so that psselect etc. work
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- INSTALLATION
-
- UUdecode appledict.ps.uue (if supplied encoded), edit Makefile to put in
- required CFLAGS (SYSV for System V machines), "make", and install files in
- appropriate places.
-
- BUGS
-
- The utilities don't check for PS-Adobe-?.? conformance; they assume documents
- conform. Utilities need an extra save/restore around whole document on a
- SPARCPrinter with NeWSPrint 1.0, because of bugs in the xnews server.
-
- Bug fixes and suggestions to ajcd@dcs.ed.ac.uk
-