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Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working

Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Date 2012-09-05 06:19 -0700
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Subject Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working
From SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 11:39:01 AM UTC+3, Michael Kilpatrick wrote:
> ...
> Hmm, I tried going back to the PS modifications I began with.
> 
> This time, on the 2-page spread, it was successfully printed (after 
> using psselect -p2,3) but rather than a 2-page spread, both the pages 
> were printed on top of each other in the left half of the A3 page, with 
> the right half being blank!!!
> ...

Now, you say that by inserting the small PostScript code fragment from your original post works OK for creating a PDF. By "works OK" I mean you get a PDF with an optional intial A4 page containing the 1st page of the document - if the total number of pages is odd -, followed by A3 pages with 2 doc pages each. In this case, why not produce and archive those PDFs, and not the PS?

Does the printer have 2 trays, to put A4 paper in one and A3 paper in another? I notice my oldish Adobe Reader (7.xx) has an option to "[x] Choose Paper Source by PDF page size". Once checked, and once the driver being correctly configured to know what paper size is in each tray, I expect you just print the PDF and get the correct size for each sheet of paper.

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Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-03 22:41 +0100
  Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-09-03 19:40 -0400
    Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-04 13:41 +0100
      Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-09-04 23:34 -0400
        Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-05 13:36 +0100
          Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-09-05 23:26 -0400
  Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Luser droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-03 23:01 -0500
    Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-04 13:59 +0100
  Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-09-03 22:40 -0700
    Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-04 15:25 +0100
  Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-04 19:49 +0100
    Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-09-04 21:45 +0200
    Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-09-04 22:43 -0700
      Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-05 09:28 +0100
        Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-05 09:38 +0100
          Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-09-05 06:19 -0700
        Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-05 10:07 +0100
          Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-09-05 06:09 -0700
            Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-05 15:16 +0100
              Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-09-05 11:25 -0700
                Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-05 20:25 +0100
  Re: Converting A4 into 2-page A3 spreads - PS code no longer working Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.cospam.uk> - 2012-09-05 16:43 +0100

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