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John: Re: Your need to print 2-up duplicated pages. Send an e-mail to this person describing your needs: Don Markuson >INTERNET:dmm@tiger1.Prime.COM He wrote an outstanding series of MAC Laserwriter postscript drivers that do, among other neat things, n-up printing. Maybe he could be persuaded to help modify his code to…

John, Try leaving a message for Olav Martin Kvern (ole to his friends) in section 16 (Phil & ole's place). I'm sure he could come up with the Postscript for you. Dave Read action !

Yes, I bet that's all it would take, assuming the printer had enough memory to buffer one full page. In graphics and bitmap intensive pages, that might be a problem. I can imagine another approach, that would take each painting operator, rebind it, and have it stroke/fill/type each thing twice.…

John, I betcha that what you're looking to do can be done most easily with about three lines of postscript sent to the Lino before you start outputing a regular PageMaker document. Trouble is, I don't know what those lines would be! They'd say something like: From here on, whenever…

John, Have you discussed this with your printer? My experience is that printers wouldn't want this kind of signature. It is better for them to have printer spreads, where the two pages that come out side by side are on opposite sides of the fold in the final book. For…

John — To get PageMaker to print two-up, there are two ways: 1. PageMaker 4.2 has an Addition that does this, called Make Booklet. 2. If you don't have 4.2, or you want to do it the old way for any reason, here's how: (a) Facing Pages has to be…