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2×4 does PostScript!

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#106476From: Woody LeonhardOct 10, 1991 5:35 PM
John — I'd be willing to bet you'd be time and money ahead to print the doc TWICE — the second time with a 4.25 inch left margin — and feed the paper through the printer twice. The automated approach you're looking for sounds (at first blush) to be more complicated than it's worth. I think. — Woody Read action !reply Enter reply. (/EXIT when done) 1: Time and money? I doubt it! We've tried this approach… you know, re 2: -feeding sheets is problematic because of curling, etc. and then when 3: one page jams, you have to reprint that page twice andand send the t 4: rest through. We A long timae ago on a in a strange program on a strange plat 5: form, we had a page layout program that could do this with a s 6: imple flick of an option, and ever since we've been struggling. 7: Our intermediate solution was a word processiror macro that 8: searched , copied and reduplicated the each pages's contents, with an offse 9: t. It was time-consuming, generated huge PostScript files10: , and it sorta worked. 11: /post Message # 106518 posted