Other PostScript Utilities
| PSUtils | Angus Duggan's PSUtils package contains several interesting tools in addition to psselect (). They're a bit more esoteric, but they can be very useful in some situations: for example, if you're printing a brochure or a bulletin, these tools help to automate the task. We'll only summarize them quickly; you can look at Angus's manual pages for detailed information. |
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- epsffit
- Fits an EPSF file -capsulated PostScript) to a given bounding box. epsffit can center the image, rotate it, adjust the aspect ratio, and add showpage to make it print.
- extractres
- Extracts resources (fonts, procsets, patterns, files, etc.) from a PostScript document into separate files, replacing them with appropriate
%%IncludeResourcecomments in the document prologue. This makes it safe to rearrange the document with psnup or pstops. - includeres
- Includes resources (fonts, procsets, patterns, files, etc.) indicated by the
%%IncludeResourcecomments in a PostScript document. (See extractres above.) - pstutorial
- Rearranges files in a PostScript document into "signatures"; that is, rearranges pages so that folding them "naturally" will result in a tutorial or pamphlet.
- psmerge
- Merges PostScript documents into a single document. It only works in specific cases: documents created by the same application, with the same device setup and resources loaded.
- psnup
- Rearranges a PostScript document so that it prints several pages on each sheet of paper, scaling and orienting the pages appropriately for a tutoriallet. Together with pstutorial, psnup makes production of a tutoriallet (or even a moderate-sized tutorial) relatively easy.
As with pstutorial, you may need a preprocessor like fixfmps () to put the PostScript file into an acceptable form.
- psresize
- Rescales and centers a document on a different size of paper. For example, it converts an American letter-size document to A4 size paper.
- pstops
- A general utility for rearranging pages in a PostScript document. You can select individual pages, put several pages on an individual page with different orientations, and so on.
- JP, ML, AD