Short: Mpage 2.5 (68k+PPC) Author: Mark Hahn, Andreas Kleinert (port) Uploader: info ar-kleinert de Type: text/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos; ppc-powerup Amiga 68k/PPC port of Mpage. Mpage is a program to reduce and print multiple pages of text per sheet on a PostScript compatible printer. It also has limited functionality to do the same with postscript files itself. The PPC binaries have the ".elf" extension and are useable from Shell when being used with ppc.library V46+ or Frank Wille's emulation for WOS (V0.6b or higher). Have fun. Usage (for example): MPage TESTFILE >prt: MPage TESTFILE >T:DESTFILE -- ARK, 25/Jul/99 ************************************************************* COPYRIGHT: Mpage and all the files distributed with mpage are covered by copyright: Copyright (c) 1994-1997 Marcel J.E. Mol, The Netherlands Copyright (c) 1988 Mark P. Hahn, Herndon, Virginia Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that this copyright notice is preserved, and that the distributor grants the recipient permission for further redistribution as permitted by this notice. Mpage was written by: ...!uunet!\ Mark Hahn, Sr Systems Engineer >pyrdc!mark Pyramid Technology Corporation ...!pyramid!/ Vienna, Va (703)848-2050 marcel@mesa.nl MESA Consulting B.V. Voorburg The Netherlands Phone: +31-(0)15-3105252 Mobile:+31-(0)6-54724868 Fax: +31-(0)70-3873683 ================================================================= DESCRIPTION: Mpage is a program to reduce and print multiple pages of text per sheet on a PostScript compatible printer. It also has limited functionality to do the same with postscript files itself. The following are the files you should have for mpage. README Notes and descriptions, this file README.OS2 OS/2 port description Copyright Copyright notice CHANGES Change storys Makefile The Makefile TODO Wish List for changes FAQ Useful tips and hints NEWS Global changes, User visible changes Mpage.lsm LSM file for mpage args.c Command line and options processing encoding.h Definition of internal default character encoding file.c Generic file handeling glob.c Global variable setup mpage.h Definitions mpage.c Main Control page.c Page layout routines post.c PostScript file processing sample.c Prints sample page layout pages text.c Text file processing mpage.1 Manual page fix Fix to mpage that makes it work with ArborText All.chars Test file containing all ascii characters Encodings Directory with character encoding library files Characters List of postscript character encoding names Encoding.format Description on how to create character encoding library files gencodes.c Util program to build All.chars file Test Directory with test pages OS2 Contrib to build and use mpage on OS/2 Contrib Directory with contributions by others INSTRUCTIONS: All you should need to do is run make. This will create mpage and a program called msample. Mpage is the program to print n-up pages. Msample prints a sample outline. I used it for debugging the placement of the layout. It is also handy for other layout purposes. It accepts all the arguments that mpage does, but does not print files. As a quick sample try: "mpage mp_args.c" or "mpage -8 mp_post.c" or "groff -man mpage.1 | mpage -2" The manual page, mpage.1, formats with UCB or ATT manual macros. USING MPAGE: You will find that it takes a while on an Apple LW or Apple LW+ to print 4 pages per sheet, It takes "a good long time" for 8 pages. Reduced PostScript documents take a while too. (A rule of thumb might be 4 times as long for 4-pages-per-sheet reduction :-) On a QMS 8ppm printer 4 pages per sheet is about the same speed and other forms of "1-up" output. mpage prints some timing information back from the printer so you can measure the time required for full jobs. ADMINISTRATORS: As a printer administrator you should see the wish list for caveats and information about future versions. I still have work to do to make mpage more "administrator friendly", but figured that I'd better get what's been done out the door. BUG REPORTS: Mpage is supported but this is done is pare time. So please sent in bug reports, request or other things related to mpage and once in a while I'll release a version... If you have a problem please send me a complete description of the symptoms. Please include the brand name of your printer, a copy of the input file (especially if it is with PostScript input), and a description of what to look for on the output. If your printer has an error log, please include as much of it as is revalant. In general, the more clearly organized information I have, the easier it will be for me. And please do not forget to mention the mpage version you're using. Also the ouput generated by your mpage might come in handy... MAKING CHANGES: Please, if you make any improvements, send them back to me so that I can include them in future versions. Also I would solicit comments as to the usefulness, and effectiveness of mpage. Let me know what you like or dislike and feel free to ask any questions you have concerning this mpage distribution. Thank you! -Marcel Mol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marcel J.E. Mol phone: (+31) 015-3105252 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Delft University of Technology | MESA Consulting BV Netherlands | Networking and Unix Consultancy marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl | marcel@mesa.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ They couldn't think of a number, so they gave me a name! -- Rupert Hine