| [9216] | 1 | .TH PSREV 1 "31 May 1996" "MIT Athena" |
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| 2 | .ds PS P\s-2OST\s+2S\s-2CRIPT\s+2 |
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| 3 | .SH NAME |
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| 4 | psrev \- select or reverse the page order of a PostScript file |
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| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 6 | .B psrev |
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| 7 | [ |
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| 8 | .B \-R |
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| 9 | ] [ |
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| 10 | .BI \-s pagespec |
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| 11 | ] [ |
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| 12 | .I file |
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| 13 | ] |
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| 14 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 15 | .I psrev |
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| 16 | is a script which reads in the specified \*(PS language |
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| 17 | .I file |
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| 18 | (or the standard input if no file is named) and, if the input conforms |
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| 19 | to the \*(PS language document structuring conventions, reverses and |
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| 20 | selects specified pages for printing, and writes the resulting file on |
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| 21 | the standard output. |
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| 22 | .PP |
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| 23 | .I psrev |
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| 24 | is no longer a part of the Transcript package from Adobe. Transcript |
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| 25 | now contains |
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| 26 | .IR pslpr , |
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| 27 | which provides equivalent functionality in addition to several more |
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| 28 | advanced options. In order to facilitate the transition to Transcript |
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| 29 | 4.1, Athena release 8.0 contains a simple script that understands old |
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| 30 | .I psrev |
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| 31 | options and invokes |
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| 32 | .I pslpr |
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| 33 | with appropriate arguments. However, this script will probably be |
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| 34 | removed in the next Athena release, and the users are encouraged to use |
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| 35 | .I pslpr |
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| 36 | instead. |
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| 37 | .sp |
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| 38 | The possible options are: |
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| 39 | .TP |
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| 40 | .BI \-s " pagespec" |
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| 41 | specifies a range (or several ranges) of pages to be printed. |
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| 42 | .I Pagespec |
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| 43 | is a string, not containing spaces, of the form ``pagerange[,pagespec]''. |
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| 44 | .I Pagerange |
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| 45 | may be a single page number or a range |
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| 46 | of the form ``N-M'' which means print pages N through M. |
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| 47 | .sp |
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| 48 | With original |
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| 49 | .IR psrev , |
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| 50 | -N would print from the beginning of the document to page N, and M- |
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| 51 | would print from page M to the end of the document. With the current |
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| 52 | script, -N is equivalent to 1-N, and M- is equivalent to M-9999; these |
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| 53 | may not be equivalent to the old meanings if your document uses an |
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| 54 | unorthodox page numbering. |
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| 55 | .sp |
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| 56 | The analogous |
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| 57 | .I pslpr |
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| 58 | option is |
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| 59 | .BI -i pagerange |
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| 60 | which can be specified multiple times for multiple ranges. Thus, |
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| 61 | .I psrev |
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| 62 | ``-sM-N,P-Q,...'' is equivalent to |
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| 63 | .I pslpr |
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| 64 | ``-iM-N -iP-Q ...''. |
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| 65 | .I pslpr |
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| 66 | does not accept ranges of the form ``-N'' or ``M-''. |
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| 67 | .TP |
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| 68 | .B -R |
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| 69 | will not reverse the page order (the default is to reverse). |
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| 70 | .sp |
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| 71 | Note that the meaning of the -R option in |
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| 72 | .I pslpr |
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| 73 | is exactly opposite from |
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| 74 | .IR psrev . |
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| 75 | .SH EXAMPLES |
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| 76 | The following command reads a \*(PS language file called infile.ps and |
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| 77 | outputs pages 3 through 19, 37 through 60 and page 90 to outfile.ps. |
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| 78 | .RS .5i |
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| 79 | psrev -R -s3-19,37-60,90 printfile.ps > outfile.ps |
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| 80 | .RE |
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| 81 | Here are two ways to accomplish the same effect using |
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| 82 | .IR pslpr : |
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| 83 | .RS .5i |
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| 84 | pslpr -p outfile.ps -i3-19 -i37-60 -i90 infile.ps |
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| 85 | .br |
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| 86 | pslpr -p- -i3-19 -i37-60 -i90 infile.ps > outfile.ps |
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| 87 | .RE |
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| 88 | .PP |
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| 89 | In the next example, a text file is processed by enscript, creating a |
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| 90 | \*(PS language file which is page-reversed and printed on printer |
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| 91 | named ``ajax'': |
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| 92 | .RS .5i |
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| 93 | enscript -p- textfile | psrev | lpr -Pajax |
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| 94 | .RE |
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| 95 | Or, using |
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| 96 | .I pslpr |
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| 97 | again: |
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| 98 | .RS .5i |
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| 99 | enscript -p- textfile | pslpr -R -Pajax |
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| 100 | .RE |
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| 101 | .SH ENVIRONMENT |
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| 102 | .IP PSRESOURCEPATH |
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| 103 | path name to use for accessing printer resource information |
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| 104 | for downloadable resources |
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| 105 | .IP PSTEMPDIR |
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| 106 | path name of a temporary directory to use instead of /usr/tmp |
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| 107 | for spooled temporary files |
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| 108 | .br |
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| 109 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 110 | transcript(1), pslpr(1), enscript(1), postscript(7) |
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| 111 | .SH "NOTES" |
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| 112 | \*(PS is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. |
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