Re: [SLE] Printing tiff files?

4 Aug 2001

      On Thursday 02 August 2001 02:49, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
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"Steven T. Hatton"  writes:
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Printing:
convert -page A4+0+0 image.tiff - | lpr
Later, I realized the PS format was not specified for the output file
here. I guess "convert -page A4+0+0 image.tiff PS2:- | lpr" is OK but
I haven't tested it.
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When I already have my document in a postscript file I typically use
psbook and psnup, but I don't think these will do any good in this
situation.
Try something like:
FILES="f1.tiff f2.tiff f3.tiff"    # or more files
convert -page A4+0+0 $FILES PS2:book.ps
psnup -2 book.ps book_2.ps
Also note that the PS2 format (Adobe Level II PostScript)
significantly reduces the resulting file size.
Alexandr, et al, 

Thanks for the help.

http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85906673/asar/havamal/havamal.html

That was the hint I needed.  I found I couldn't get more than a few pages to 
fit in a single PS file, so I had to generate on file per sheet.  I tried 
using a perl script to do everything, but I couldn't remember how to get it 
to pass the multiple file names as parameters of the system('convert', ...).  
I createda perl script that spit out a bash script which processed on 
section.  It's a major hack, but here's the script.  You will notice I don't 
even use command line parameters, instead I changed the variable assignment 
in the perl script itself. FWIW:
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#!/usr/bin/perl

print "#!/bin/bash \n";
print "mkdir ps\n";

$offset = 521;
$size = 30;

for ($i = 0; $i < 16 ; $i += 2) {
	print "FILES=\"";

	$j = ($size -1) + $offset - $i;
	if ($j < 10) {
		print "00".$j.".tiff ";
	} elsif ($j < 100) {
		print "0".$j.".tiff ";
	} else {
		print $j.".tiff ";
	} # else

	$j = $offset + $i;
	if ($j < 10) {
		print "00".$j.".tiff ";
		$pad="00".$j;
	} elsif ($j < 100) {
		$pad="0".$j;
		print "0".$j.".tiff ";
	} else {
		print $j.".tiff ";
		$pad=$j;
	} # else

	$j = $offset + $i + 1;
	if ($j < 10) {
		print "00".$j.".tiff ";
	} elsif ($j < 100) {
		print "0".$j.".tiff ";
	} else {
		print $j.".tiff ";
	} # else

	$j = ($size -2) + $offset - $i;
	if ($j < 10) {
		print "00".$j.".tiff ";
	} elsif ($j < 100) {
		print "0".$j.".tiff ";
	} else {
		print $j.".tiff ";
	} # else

	print "\";\n";
	print "echo \"files = \" \$FILES\n";
	print "convert -page letter \$FILES PS2:quad.ps;\n";
	print "psnup -2 -pletter quad.ps ps/book$pad.ps;\n";
}
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Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se