Re: [seul-sci] quic kquestion

["Pete St. Onge" <pete@seul.org>]

"T. Rashid" wrote:
> 
> aarrggh!! you know the situation - i got a huge latex file - and the
> postscript output is HUGE! i've got 100MB zip disks so it won't all fit on
> (i can't taker it to uni and print it off)
> 
> any ideas how to make ghostscript or latex or anything produce smaller
> chunks - say pages 1-100 and another postscript file of pages 101-200,
> say.
> 
> that way i can put it on two zip disks - and use windows gsview32 to print
> it. that why i can't use the split command!
> 
> t

If you're using dvips to create the postscript, try using a combination of
the -pp and -o options.

You could perhaps also create a pdf using ps2pdf and printing from that; it
should be much smaller (assuming you have few graphics), but I've found in a
couple of cases that the fonts in the printed pdf copy weren't as nice as
those in the printed ps copy.

Hope this help,

-- Pete
   (who goes back into hiding)

[pete@acip pete]$ man dvips
       -pp pagelist
              A comma-separated list of pages  and  ranges  (a-b)
              may  be given, which will be interpreted as \count0
              values.  Pages not specified will not  be  printed.
              Multiple  -pp options may be specified or all pages
              and page ranges  can  be  specified  with  one  -pp
              option.




(sorry to be so quiet lately, am recovering from a disk crash, major thesis
revision, and learning postgres all at the same time ... will be back on
soon)