On 14 September 2012 22:57, Michael McMac
<address@hidden> wrote:
I'm trying to get enscript to generate 2 long columns in portrait
mode. With a suitably scaled font this results in exactly that
with about 80h x 121v output:
# enscript -T4 -Ec --color --toc -2 -B --nup-columnwise -j -f Courier5 -K -o out.ps <files>
The problem is the rightmost column remains empty for short
files as it appears enscript wants to align the next file on
a physical page boundary vs. the next column boundary. Is
there any way to force file alignment to a column boundary such
that the otherwise wasted blank columns are suppressed?
Good question!
FWIW using -U2 in either portrait or landscape modes doesn't
generate the long portrait column rendering I'm after.
Yes, when using -U/--nup the portrait or landscape mode is chosen based on the n-up option - it alternates between portrait and landscape based on the power of two that was passed, so that the pages will fit proportionately (at least with A4 paper, I guess). So there's no way to use n-up to have portrait columns at present.
--nup-columnwise will only have an effect with -U4 or higher - it changes the order in which the logical pages are put into the boxes on the physical page, going down the columns before going across.
So you want columns like -2, but without forcing a new page on each new input file. I honestly don't know if this is possible without patching enscript.
I'm not claiming this is a bug -- likely I'm just missing
some option. However the man page doesn't seem to touch on
this and I'm unsure what other forum would be suitable to
address such a usage question.
Don't worry, this was the right place to ask.