[TriLUG] Re: Two-Up Postscript Output

[Scott G. Hall]

Matt Matthews <jvm at linuxgames.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:57:48 -0400
>"Scott G. Hall" <ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net> wrote:
>  
>
>>> Does anybody know how to do 2-up output to a postscript queue?
>>> I want to do two things: 2-up of postscript pages formatted from
>>> say Open Office or Acrobat Reader, and 2-up of ASCII text files.
>>> This is just general 2-up.
>>    
>>
>
>Is 'psnup -2' what you're looking for? Try 'man psnup' for details.
>

Exactly what I was looking for !!!!  Thanks!  I found it my Red Hat 8.0
distribution, and now I need to port or compile it into my Mandrake 9,
Xandros, UnixWare & Solaris boxes.

Looking at the man page, the example at the bottom explicitly mentions
groff usage, and many other utilities in the see also section.  Good
pointer for this -- thanks.

In my original post I mentioned I was looking into a2ps for formatting
side-by-side diff outputs of text files for code reviews.  I still have
not found a good solution to this.  sdiff comes close ("sdiff|a2ps|lpr"),
but still is not exactly what I am looking for.  I have a funny feeling
that I might find something on CPAN, but I am not counting on it.

Still looking for pointers for fancy side-by-side diff output (laser,
not color).  Italic removed code (strike-thru is too hard to see what
was deleted), bold new or changed code.  Something more pleasant than
vanilla sdiff output would be great.

-- 
Scott G. Hall,
Raleigh, NC, USA
ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net