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Oct 19, 2004, 07:58 AM
 
Hi, I have a client that uses Quark 4.x and requires me to postscript my documents into individual pages for the printer. Theey use a Batch postscripting extension for Quark called MadeToPrint which is pretty pricey for me.

So, instead of me having to print each individual page to a ps file, can I print the entire doc to a ps file and then use some free or cheap tool to break the ps into individual pages without damaging the files?

I run Quark 4.x from classic ...
     
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Oct 21, 2004, 04:18 PM
 
You can get some free unix commandline tools, such as pssplit, which you'll either have to compile yourself or find an osx version of. Another option is Ghostscript, which is already on OSX systems.

Here's a page that has some more info:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pssplit/

It also has C sources for pspages and pssplit which you can compile and a line on how to sperate pages in Ghostscript.
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Oct 22, 2004, 01:30 PM
 
How would I go about compiling pssplit for OSX? I have the dev tools installed on my machine and have downloaded the source file (pssplit.c)
     
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Oct 24, 2004, 02:01 AM
 
1. Go to directory: cd <Path to directory where pssplit.c is located>
2. Compile: cc -o pssplit pssplit.c
3. To run: ./pssplit [args]

That's it.
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