Printing several pages on one page...

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DD said:
Anyone know of a program that enables the printing of four A4 pages
onto one page?

DD
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Serious suggestion - did you check your printer software?
my printer is an HP and one can choose how many pages to print on one A4
sheet.
hope this helps

dfrog
 
ok .. since my previous reply hasnt apeared yet and I can't wait for it to
... FinePrint is now a comercial product .. I just checked, so if your
intereted I'll email it to you.. the freeware version is 576kb. its more
than 6 years since I downloaded it
 
Thanks, that's a great offer! i used to have a copy a few years ago and
I was convinced it was freeware but as you say it is now a quite
expensive commercial product. I will e-mail you.....

DD
 
dfrog said:
Serious suggestion - did you check your printer software?
my printer is an HP and one can choose how many pages to print on one A4
sheet.
hope this helps

dfrog
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You must have an HP printer! Mine is a Canon and I can't find a way to
print more than one on one.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway!

DD
 
You must have an HP printer! Mine is a Canon and I can't find a way to
print more than one on one.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway!

DD
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I have a *very* inexpensive Canon and it will print several pages per
sheet. I think yours would too.
When you "print" something, a "Print" box comes up. Select
"Preferences", then "Layout", then "Pages per Sheet". I have never used
this as I have an old version of F...P....., but that' not relevant
here.

I suspect this feature is available on most printers.
 
o ya still need fineprint ??

DD said:
Thanks, that's a great offer! i used to have a copy a few years ago and
I was convinced it was freeware but as you say it is now a quite
expensive commercial product. I will e-mail you.....

DD
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DD,

This may be of interest:

- Go to www.adobe.com, search for "postscript printer driver", download
and install one of the generic PostScript drivers for your platform.
This will set up a virtual printer on your machine.

- When printing, choose the generic PostScript printer, and select
number of pages as 4 on the Layout tab of the printer properties dialog.

- Also choose to "Print to file" within the printer properties dialog.
This will create a PostScript image of your printout on your hard disk.
(TIP within a tip: You can only specify the file name, and not the
location of the output file. To save you from launching a search after
writing the file, look first in the program folder of the application
from which you're printing.)

- Use Ghostview or any other PostScript reading software to open the
file, and print it.

- Voila! Output is 4 pages per sheet, as desired.

Rohit
 
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