output formatter

[jabr at tarnhelm.blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 linuxguy at ici.net wrote:

> 
> I'm looking for a text output formatter (like SUN's `mp`).  I'd like to
> print 2 pages of text side by side (landscape).
> 
> In the SUN world, I'd use `mp -l filename | lpr`...
> 
> Anyone?

mpage does that (mpage -2 filename | lpr). It handles both plain text and
Postscript input and outputs a 1-up, 2-up, 4-up, or 8-up format, and
provides lots of options to tweak the results with.
 
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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 
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