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Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS

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kax@kax.org wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2012, Rod Dorman wrote:
>> What is your definition of "the best way"?
> 
> Sorry for that; I think I have to explain further what I want to do.
> 
> In fact I have a huge PS file (a big poster), and I want to make a PDF
> booklet with A5 pages. Each of these A5 page should be a detail
> (scale=100%) of the big poster. You may think to this project as an
> exploration of the big poster. Once the big PS is ready, I would like to
> make my booklet (either as a second PS file or a PDF file but anyway the
> final version should be a PDF file, most certainly processed with ps2pdf),
> with something like that:
> 
>    %Page: 19
>    -2000 -1345 translate
>    <magic command for doing everything>
>    showpage
>    %Page: 20
>    -1224 -945 translate
>    <magic command for doing everything>
>    showpage
> 
> etc.
> 
> I thought it would be very easy, but I can't manage to do it.
> 
> Regards,
> 

Well, as you obviously are using Ghostscript, there is a simple solution:
store your EPS image(s) in an ordinary file and call it from within your 
PostScript job using the run operator, such as
(/somedirectory/filename)run

Helge

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Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS kax@kax.org - 2012-05-14 20:56 +0200
  Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2012-05-14 19:03 +0000
    Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-05-14 21:31 +0200
    Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS kax@kax.org - 2012-05-14 21:59 +0200
      Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2012-05-15 09:52 +0100
      Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-05-15 10:52 +0200
        Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS Peter Davis <Peter.Davis@mathworks.com> - 2012-05-15 09:58 -0400
        Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS kax@kax.org - 2012-05-15 16:15 +0200
          Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-05-15 15:44 +0100
            Re: Including the same EPS file multiple times in a PS kax@kax.org - 2012-05-15 21:24 +0200

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