Two-up Printing?
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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 a page is printed,
print it twice, with the second one offset by… Actually, if you want crop
marks as well, it might take a few more lines, but I'd look into that
approach before I went to the trouble of doing side-by-side layout.
The best price for PageMaker is probably obtainable from either
MacWarehouse or MacConnection. MacWarehouse is online on CIS. GO MW will
take you there. I expect you'll be able to find out a price quite easily.
Dave
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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. I think the post-processing approach as the best possibilities. I
investigated a product called Double-Up for the PC, it takes this approach.
It's $260, it does two dozen things I have no use for, but it does do what
it calls "twin printing", and their flyer describes exactly what I want to
do: "Twin page printing: Print two collated copies at once. Page 1 + Page 1
print side by side, ready to be sliced into two perfect books." I'm
beginning to suspect that print shops don't ask for this because it lets
them charge so much extra for all that extra re-shooting. 🙂
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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
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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 print each page twice , and reduced to 2-up.
Don knows postscript inside out, top to bottom and was extremely helpful in
supporting his freeware product DMM Laserwriter Stuff.
Certainly worth a try…all he can say is "NO"…
Norm
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1: Are these DMM PostScript drivers available in the lirbarbraries here?
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