Number Up Printing in PCL

[djogoz]

My printing environment consist of VMS/VAX operating system and Xerox DC555 printer. There is a TCP/IP LPD communication between the two.
I am trying to print plain text files with Number Up printing.
Question: Is there an example how to do this in PCL 5 or Postscript if there is an easy way to convert text to postscript???

djogoz

 

[jlasman]

By number up printing, do you mean printing 2 pages per
side or something similar?

If you are only printing on one side of the sheet it is
fairly simple using sheet offset or margin commands to set
the left margin and keeping track of the linecount.

Now if you want to print on both sides and make a booklet,
then you will have to preprocess the text, and parse out
the pages needed for each flat.

I have done both in that past. It is doable in PCL.

A shell script may do it.



Jim Asman
jlasman@telus.net

 

[djogoz]

Yes I have meant two pages per side on either double sided or single sided.

I have actually found a way to write a small Postscript script to do this (with BeginPage and EndPage functions) and also since all my documents (or almost all of them, some of them are in Postscript) on VMS are in text format I had to write another piece of Postscript code to translate it to Postscript and than combining the two pieces I managed to print any way I wonted.

Thank anyway,
Zeljko

 

[epalmer850]

Are you using DCPS (the driver package for OpenVMS)? If so, it has a n-up feature.