[24623] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.2.20: psnup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cda)
Fri Oct 10 14:21:07 2003
Message-Id: <200310101821.h9AIL5JG001776@meeko.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
cc: cda@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:21:05 -0400
From: cda <cda@MIT.EDU>
System name: meeko.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.2.20 (with mkserv)
Display type: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 85)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
Use psnup to print multiple pages of a .ps file per side.
What's wrong:
The psnup in the Athena release doesn't seem to cooperate with many
.ps files. For one test file, two pages were printed out of ~10,
then the job died; for another, multiple pages were printed *on top
of one another* on the same page, instead of side by side.
What should have happened:
The output should have been nicely formatted N-up, as expected.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The psnup in the postscript locker works perfectly for both the files
I tested. I've been suggesting "add -f postscript" to users before
using psnup, but it'd probably be best if the release version were
upgraded to match the one in the postscript locker (I'm guessing it's
an old version that doesn't understand some versions of postscript).
