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Date:      Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:40:37 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Advanced printing/layout tools
Message-ID:  <20100101224037.GB99997@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4B3E7644.2080805@polands.org>
References:  <4B3E3121.6060106@polands.org> <20100101184219.6cd84f19.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100101182421.GA38610@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20100101193625.d25855d3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100101201805.GA41413@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4B3E7644.2080805@polands.org>

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On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 04:25:08PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
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> Thanks for the info so far.  I have much to learn about LaTeX, that is=20
> certain.  To complicate matters, the output will be on US Letter,=20
> landscape, multi-column, multi-sided, booklet format.  No doubt LaTeX=20
> will handle the landscape, letter, and multi-column, but I'm not sure=20
> about booklet, multi-sided.  I have some experience with print/psutils=20
> doing duplex, booklet printing.

LaTeX can generate postscript via the dvips(1) program. I've used that a lot
with psutils.

But modern LaTeX toolchains tend to generate pdf by default. The port
print/pdfjam provides the same functionality as psutils but then for pdf fi=
les.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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