Smaller margins in postscript documents.

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby enlarging the
text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any suggestions?
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[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

On Monday 21 July 2003 17:04, David Z Maze wrote:

> I suspect you're not really writing postscript documents by hand; what
> is producing the files? There's not an easy way to do this in
> general. There might be something that could rescale a file to be 10%
> larger and still centered, but I can't come up with anything off hand
> that would do it.

The documents are physics preprint papers from [url]www.arxiv.org[/url], so they usually
come from latex, and the sources are available.
I use 'psnup -2' to get two pages on each side of a sheet of paper (four
pages per sheet), thus getting lots of whitespace between the two columns of
text. So even if could if find a way to enlarge the original ps file, the
psnup command will give even more whitespace in the middle of the page
It would be cool if there was a simple postscript command that could scaleup
the content of the pages (and not the pagesize), but I don't think I will
bother if it necessary to modify the latex source and reprocess.

Thanks
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[Carlos Sousa]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:54:07 +0200 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:

> I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby
> enlarging the text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any
> suggestions?

pstops, in the psutils package. Man is your friend.

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[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 00:31, Carlos Sousa wrote:

> pstops, in the psutils package. Man is your friend.
>
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That's great, thanks! This was exactly what I needed.

I used the command
pstops "2:0L@.9(23cm,-1cm)+1L@.9(23cm,13cm)" in_A4.ps out_A4.ps

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