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SOFTWARE REPLACEMENT: psutils now replaces psnupos2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Brown)
Fri Feb 9 16:18:38 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 9 Feb 1996 02:51:04 GMT
From: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown)
Reply-To: gaylord@vtaix.cc.vt.edu
Submitted by: Clark Gaylord
Source: cgaylord@vt.edu
Date sent: 1996 01 19
Date posted: 1996 02 07
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Dear OS/2 Community --
Last February I did a quick-and-dirty program to convert PostScript files to
n-up. This was a REXX program that wrapped your PS file with some PostScript
written long ago by Ned Bachelder, and has existed as UNIX shell script for a
few years. This works OK, but there are apparently some PostScript files it
cannot convert correctly, and it does not have excellent performance.
I am pleased to announce that Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu) has done an
executable version of psnup in his port of psutils. This version seems to
handle more PostScript files and has substantially better performance than my
psnupos2. Accordingly, I am withdrawing psnupos2. People needing this
capability should download psutils as
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/printer/psutils.zip instead.
Also note that the description of psutils says you need perl; this is only
true of *some* of the programs. In particular, psnup.exe does not use perl.
Clark K. Gaylord http://gaylord.async.vt.edu/
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