[SLE] pstops problem

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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:04:39 +0100 (BST)
To: linux-users@lists.man.ac.uk, suse-linux-e@suse.com

Hi Folks,

I seem to have hit a problem with pstops.

My source PS document has 35 pages, of which the first
is printed at the size I want (call this "scale 1.0"),
and the remaining 34 are printed at 4/5 of this size
(in fact in order for "crop marks" to be printed in the
corners of the pages). I want to scale up these latter
pages so that they are on the same scale as the first.

This means scaling them up by a factor of 5/4 = 1.25
Call this "scale 1.25".

So I thought I could do this with

  pstops -pa4 35:0@1.0,1@1.25,2@1.25,...,34@1.25 in.ps out.ps

(see 'man pstops' for why I thought this).

This didn't so anything, and I eventually sussed out
that if I used scales less than 1 then it *did* apply
those scale factors. E.g.

  pstops -pa4 35:0@1.0,1@.8,2@.8,...,34@.8

then it applied "scale 0.8" to each page except the first,
which thereby came out even smaller.

The clue for this discovery was the statement in 'man pstops'
which said:

  spec = [-]pageno[L][R][U][@scale][(xoff,yoff)]

  The optional scale parameter scales the page by the fraction
  specified.

It was the word "fraction" that gave the clue!

So it seems I can't enlarge a page using 'pstops'!

Or can I? How to get "scale 1.25" (which eludes me) as well as
"scale 0.8" (which works)?

(OK, I know that I would need to include offsets (xoff,yoff) as
well, but let's get the scaling to work first!)

With thanks, and best wishes to all,
Ted.

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