COPYRIGHT: Mpage and all the files distributed with mpage are covered by copyright: Copyright (c) 1994-2004 Marcel J.E. Mol, The Netherlands Copyright (c) 1988 Mark P. Hahn, Herndon, Virginia Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that this copyright notice is preserved, and that the distributor grants the recipient permission for further redistribution as permitted by this notice. marcel@mesa.nl MESA Consulting B.V. Nootdorp The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-3105252 Mobile:+31-6-54724868 Fax: +31-15-3105253 email: info@mesa.nl http://www.mesa.nl ftp://ftp.mesa.nl ================================================================= DESCRIPTION: Mpage is a program to reduce and print multiple pages of text per sheet on a PostScript compatible printer. It also has limited functionality to do the same directly with postscript files. The following are the files you should have for mpage. README Notes and descriptions, this file README.OS2 OS/2 port description Copyright Copyright notice CHANGES Change history Makefile The Makefile TODO Wish List for changes FAQ Useful tips and hints NEWS Global changes, User visible changes Mpage.lsm LSM file for mpage args.c Command line and options processing encoding.h Definition of internal default character encoding encoding.h.CP850 Popular for renaming to encoding.h file.c Generic file handling glob.c Global variable setup mpage.h Definitions mpage.c Main Control page.c Page layout routines post.c PostScript file processing sample.c Prints sample page layout pages text.c Text file processing util.c Misc utility functions mpage.1 Manual page All.chars Test file containing all ASCII characters Encodings Directory with character encoding library files Characters List of Postscript character encoding names Encoding.format Description on how to create character encoding library files gencodes.c Util program to build All.chars file Test Directory with test pages OS2 Directory with simulated lpr for OS/2 Contrib Directory with contributions by others Contrib/mfix Fix to mpage that makes it work with ArborText INSTRUCTIONS: All you should need to do is run make. Actually it is probably better to have a look at the Makefile and to check settings like for example PAGESIZE to set the default page size (e.g A4 or Letter ...). This will create the programs mpage and msample. Mpage is the program to print n-up pages. Msample prints a sample outline. I used it for debugging the placement of the layout. It is also handy for other layout purposes. It accepts all the arguments that mpage does, but does not print files. As a quick sample try: "mpage mp_args.c" or "mpage -8 mp_post.c" or "groff -man mpage.1 | mpage -2" The manual page, mpage.1, formats with UCB or ATT manual macros. USING MPAGE: You will find that it takes a while on an Apple LW or Apple LW+ to print 4 pages per sheet, It takes "a good long time" for 8 pages. Reduced PostScript documents take a while too. (A rule of thumb might be 4 times as long for 4-pages-per-sheet reduction :-) On a QMS 8ppm printer 4 pages per sheet is about the same speed and other forms of "1-up" output. mpage prints some timing information back from the printer so you can measure the time required for full jobs. ADMINISTRATORS: As a printer administrator you should see the wish list for caveats and information about future versions. I still have work to do to make mpage more "administrator friendly", but figured that I'd better get what's been done out the door. BUG REPORTS: Mpage is supported but this is done in spare time. So please send in bug reports, requests or other things related to mpage and once in a while I'll release a version... If you have a problem please send me a complete description of the symptoms. Please include the brand name of your printer, a copy of the input file (especially if it is with PostScript input), and a description of what to look for on the output. If your printer has an error log, please include as much of it as is revalant. In general, the more clearly organized information I have, the easier it will be for me. And please do not forget to mention the mpage version you're using. Also the output generated by your mpage might come in handy... MAKING CHANGES: Please, if you make any improvements, send them back to me so that I can include them in future versions. Also I would solicit comments as to the usefulness, and effectiveness of mpage. Let me know what you like or dislike and feel free to ask any questions you have concerning this mpage distribution. Thank you! -Marcel Mol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marcel J.E. 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