[buug] Changing PostScript page size

[Joseph Zitt]

OK, I've been trying several of these tools, with better results. One 
good thing is that processing files with

ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress myfile.ps myfile.pdf

seems to be handling the problems with fonts. Using ps2ps first also 
seems to clear up some issues. (poster doesn't seem to address what I'm 
trying to do, at least in any way that I understand.)

I'm still left, however, with the page size issue. psresize doesn't seem 
to be doing the right thing, nor does the pscrop perl script that I 
found at www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee/fun/pscrop
There is a possibility, though, that I'm misreading things through gv's 
obscure interface. I'm also not finding a tool that tells me the page 
size of a PostScript or PDF document that I've generated. I *think* I 
keep ending up with 8.5x11 pages, but I'm just not sure. (Printing the 
pages might show me something -- if I could get my printer working with 
my Linux box, or hook it up to my Windows box and get Samba working at 
all.) But the site to which I have to upload the document sees it as 
bing 8.5x11 no matter what I do.

I'll keep banging on this, but I'm far from clear as to what to do next.

Tony Godshall wrote:
> According to Joseph Zitt,
> 
>>rubinson at email.arizona.edu wrote:
>>
>>>>>Is there a good Linux-based (or, for that matter, Windows-based) tool 
>>>>
>>>>that can change the page sizes back appropriately, with the margins 
>>>>trimmed to what they originally were? I have Ghostscript, but I'm not 
>>>>seeing how to do it within that.
>>>
>>>
>>>Hrm.  That seems odd.  I don't know Framemaker, but the simplest
>>>solution from my perspective would be to use Framemaker to output at a
>>>regular 8x11 papersize and then use psresize to change the paper
>>>size.  psresize is part of the psutils package.  Lots of goodies there
>>>that you might want to look at.
>>
>>Thanks. I did, indeed, try psresize (though I found it just after I sent 
>>the post).  Viewing the result through gv, however, it looks like it 
>>shrank the first page so that it fit within the smaller space, then 
>>replaced the other 400 pages with scattered, inscrutable error messages. 
>>(I can view the original ps file in gv just fine.)
>>
>>Digging further through psutils, I tried running the original file 
>>through fixfmps, which is supposed to fix FrameMaker-induced PostScript 
>>problems (though its development seems to have ended five years before 
>>the release of the version of FrameMaker that I use). That also gave 
>>errors similar to those that psresize gave.
> 
> 
> I've found pstops or ps2ps sometimes helps clean up a file
> so other tools (psbook) work on it better.
> 
> Poster may be useful to you as well... it resizes with the
> option to produce the output on many smaller pages.