[TriLUG] Re: mpage postscript formatting question

[Lance A. Brown]

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 11:42, Douglas Kojetin wrote:

> would anyone know how i can allow some space for hole punches on the 
> side? or suggest another program to do something similar (and show me 
> the flags)?

I use this little shell script to format pages 2-up and leave room for
hole-punching them.

#!/bin/sh

pr -l 65 -f $* | mpage -2 | pstops '0 at 0.95(0,15)' 

The pstops call resizes the postscript output and moves it on the page
so the hole-punching can be done.

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