> And the ps2ps is at the end because without it NOTHING > I did would make it print duplex in my HP LaserJet 2200d > (about 10 years old).
Uh... the ps2ps is a *bad* idea -- it completely mangles your fonts. (I have no idea why it should do this, since ghostscript has no problems handling fonts correctly with the pdfwrite device.) You should get rid of it and find a real solution to your duplexing problem. Is it a Postscript printer? What program are you using to send the document to the printer? > The pstops arguments required A LOT of experimentation, > and I could not explain why it works for the life of me. The numbers appear strange because you are using two competing programs, psnup *and* pstops, to do the job of one. It would be much simpler to do without psnup and let pstops handle everything. For letter paper, "psnup -pletter -2" is equivalent to pstops -pletter '2:0L@0.647(7.809in,0in)+1L@0.647(7.809in,5.5in)' or pstops -pletter '4:0L@0.647(7.809in,0in)+1L@0.647(7.809in,5.5in),2L@0.647(7.809in,0in)+3L@0.647(7.809in,5.5in)' which is a 4-page version that just duplicates the page specifications, but is easier to compare with what follows. This would be sufficient (apart from scaling and such) if your printer supported tumble duplexing (short edge flip), which is what you need for booklet printing. If it doesn't (or you always forget how to turn it on), you can do the tumbling yourself. It simply involves rotating every other (final output) page by 180 degrees about its center and then printing in normal duplex mode (long edge flip). But this is something you can already do when assembling the original pages four to a sheet: pstops -pletter '4:0L@0.647(7.809in,0in)+1L@0.647(7.809in,5.5in),2R@0.647(0.691in,11in)+3R@0.647(0.691in,5.5in)' <dummydoc.ps >dummydoc.ps6 This is similar to the version above, except that the 3rd and 4th page are rotated the other way and positioned differently. (The lower one is now at the top and the upper one at the bottom. Remember that a page's coordinate origin is at the lower left.) The scaling factor is computed to fit two input paper "widths" (8.5 in) into one output paper "height" (11 in). The positions are chosen to center the input paper height in the output paper width. I have attached a dummy document suitable for experimenting and the output of the two pstops runs above.
dummydoc.ps
Description: PostScript document
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Description: PostScript document
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Description: PostScript document
