[nylug-talk] Two-up printing

Pann McCuaig pann at ourmanpann.com
Wed Mar 12 10:47:36 EDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:44, Ajai Khattri wrote:

> Many moons ago, I read somewhere (maybe on this list?) of a way to print a 
> document such that two pages are rendered side-by-side on one side of 
> paper in landscape mode. Combining this with two-sided printing would 
> save a lot of trees for large documents so I was wondering if anyone 
> remembered the "trick" to do this? Was it done with Ghostscript?
> 
> Naturally, Im interested in FOSS solutions primarily.

Lotsa ways to do this. I use a2ps.

http://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/

Should be available for most distros.

Cheers,
 Pann
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