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Document for postsplit - v1.0
Notice - I accept no liability for this program, this program is public domain.
Pagestream 2.2 produces monocrome postscript output or complex colour
postscript files. The colour postscript files cannot be handled by most
interpreters so the file has to be split into separate files for sending to
multipass printing devices.
With the program postsplit in its present form, its possible to automaticaly
split the file into its separate pages/colour separations.
The switch anl - analyse produces a file with a .anl extension ie:-
postsplit filename anl
!PS-Adobe-2.0
"TestPage, Page #1, Process Cyan)
!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Courier 002.003
"TestPage, Page #1, Process Magenta)
"TestPage, Page #1, Process Yellow)
"TestPage, Page #1, Process Black)
"TestPage, Page #1, Spot Colour Silver)
"TestPage, Page #2, Process Cyan)
So you now know what is in your postscript file, save this information
you will need it later. Notice that the file included font is in the
cyan colour area. This means that if you want the font to print in
black you will have to move it to the black area manualy in this version.
(I'm working on automatically moving it).
OK say we want to print the yellow page!
Use the switch postsplit filename yellow this will start to generate another
file suffixed .yellow and then ask you for a page number. As you see from
the data yellow is the third page, so enter 3.
Your now asked for the maximum page, so as there are 6 enter 6.
The output file in this version has a minor bug. About five lines up
from the bottom of the file the words End Page have two cr's after them
this should not matter.
The program will detect adobe included fonts only!
The switch fnt will extract from the begining of the first adobe font to
the end of the file and place the information in a file with the extension
.fnt ie.
postsplit filename.ps.cyan fnt You still have to insert it in the black file
manualy, depending where you send the files for printing it probably will
not matter if you erras the information from the cyan file or not. Also
the larger the file you have the more time the program will take to process.
If you find this program useful please let me know!
I Parker
7 Hawthorn Way
Macclesfield
Cheshire SK10 2DA
England