#! /bin/bash # Bourne shell script to manage the production of the 4pp LaTeX brochure # # This requires a full copy of LaTeX, and the pdf2ps and pstops utilities # # Peter Flynn, Silmaril Consultants, January 2013 # # WARNING do not use Adobe Acrobat because it fouls up on the yinit # Metafont initial. YYYYMMDD=`date +%Y%m%d` ######################################################################### # # Make the A4 version latex brochure pdflatex brochure cp brochure.pdf brochure-a4.pdf dvips -o brochure.ps brochure.dvi ######################################################################### # # Make the Letter version (a kludge; we should rewrite as a parameter) sed -e "s+a4paper+letterpaper+" brochure.sty >tmp mv -f tmp brochure.sty pdflatex brochure cp brochure.pdf brochure-letter.pdf sed -e "s+letterpaper+a4paper+" brochure.sty >tmp mv -f tmp brochure.sty ######################################################################### # # Make Postscript from the A4 PDF and impose it 2-up to A3 landscape echo Converting A4 to Postscript... pdf2ps brochure-a4.pdf echo Imposing... # This is how it should be (no offsets) #pstops -pa3 "4:-3L(29.7cm,0mm)+0L(29.7cm,21cm)" brochure-a4.ps brochure-a3folderFB.ps #pstops -pa3 "4:1L(29.7cm,0mm)+-2L(29.7cm,21cm)" brochure-a4.ps brochure-a3folderIN.ps # Adapted for HP DeskJet K-7100 and the Okular PDF reader under Xubuntu 12.10 # Set the paper size to A3 Small Margins and print in Landscape mode # Page images have been dragged right 2mm to accommodate the printer offset pstops -pa3 "4:-3L(29.7cm,-2mm)+0L(29.7cm,20.8cm)" brochure-a4.ps brochure-a3folderFB.ps pstops -pa3 "4:1L(29.7cm,-2mm)+-2L(29.7cm,20.8cm)" brochure-a4.ps brochure-a3folderIN.ps echo Converting front/back to PDF... ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a3 brochure-a3folderFB.ps echo Converting inside pages to PDF... ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a3 brochure-a3folderIN.ps ########################################################################### # # Letter is 8.5in × 11in or 215.9mm × 279.4mm # Ledger is 17in × 11in or 432mm × 279mm (Tabloid is Ledger rotated, # so the final print probably has to lie about the orientation.) echo Converting Letter to Postscript... pdf2ps brochure-letter.pdf echo Imposing... # Adapted for HP DeskJet K-7100 and the Okular PDF reader under Xubuntu 12.10 # Set the paper size to Ledger and print in Portrait mode (NOT Landscape!) # Page images have been dragged right 2mm to accommodate the printer offset pstops -ptabloid "4:-3L(11in,-2mm)+0L(11in,8.4in)" brochure-letter.ps brochure-ledgerfolderFB.ps pstops -ptabloid "4:1L(11in,-2mm)+-2L(11in,8.4in)" brochure-letter.ps brochure-ledgerfolderIN.ps echo Converting front/back to PDF... ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=tabloid brochure-ledgerfolderFB.ps echo Converting inside pages to PDF... ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=tabloid brochure-ledgerfolderIN.ps for o in FB IN; do pdftoppm brochure-a3folder$o.pdf $o for f in *.ppm; do pnmscale -width=512 $f|pnmtojpeg >${f/ppm/jpg} done done lynx -dump index.html >README cat MANIFEST | zip latex-brochure-$YYYYMMDD.zip -@ echo Done.