- When printing Powerpoint and other slides, use the psnup
command to fit 4 page images onto one physical page. Slides are still
quite readable and this method saves a lot of paper.
% psnup -4 slides.ps slides4.ps
% lp -dlaser1 slides4.ps
- When printing postscript journal articles, theses, and other large
documents for your own use, print them two pages per side, again with
the psnup command.
% psnup -2 paper.ps paper2.ps
% lp -dlaser1 paper2.ps
- When printing large ASCII text files, run them through the a2ps
command. This program converts ASCII to postscript and places two page
images onto one physical side of paper.
% a2ps -nn myfile.txt > myfile.ps
% lp -dlaser1 myfile.ps
- Another very useful command for converting ASCII text files to
postscript is enscript. It has many features, including support
for programming language-specific "pretty printing." The following example
prints 2 pages per side ("-U2"), a border around each logical page
image ("-j"), a nice header ("-G"), highlight bars to help distinguish
lines ("-H1"), and even pages rotated ("--rotate-even-pages"), which is
extremely useful for binding duplexed pages. See the man page for
details and a listing of other features.
% enscript --rotate-even-pages -Gjo myfile.ps -U2 -H1 myfile.txt
% lp -dlaser1 myfile.ps
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