Make 4 Slides per Page
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Remember when you could setup a complex document processing chain in kprinter? I call this the good old KDE 3 times. Using this feature it was possible to chain commands like psnup, psselect, pdftops etc. together in order to print a document exactly the way you wanted to. A feature missed on windows and a major selling point for KDE to me.
Well, KDE 4 has no such feature any more. In fact there is a minimal feature to print multiple pages on one page, but this feature is broken. It prints the pages completely wrong and overlapped. This was the reason I wrote this service menu.
Using this service menu you can print 4 beamer slides (PDF or PostScript) per page already sorted so you get the first page on top when you just hit print. It's a shame that I had to write a service menu for that and that the awesome document processing framework of KDE 3 got dumped. I ask: Why-oh-why is this? I don't consider KDE 4 final without this feature.
Dependencies:
pdftops
ps2pdf
psnup
psselect
kdialog
okular
Screenshot 1: The service menu.
Screenshot 2: A PDF before processing.
Screenshot 3: A PDF after processing.
Base: 4 x 5.0 Ratings
struq
Mar 21 2009
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Make 4 Slides per Page is part of KDE Themes and Content, which is supported by the following people:
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hsyl20
10 years ago
However, you have to replace "file -bi" by "file -b --mime-type" to be sure to get "application/pdf" instead of "application/pdf; charset=binary".
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TotoKid
11 years ago
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11 years ago
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hsyl20
10 years ago
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panzi
11 years ago
However, OS X does manage to print this PDF like I want to, so I have to print such PDFs on my mothers machine. :(
Maybe it's because of I have to convert it to PostScript because there are no tools like psnup or psselect for PDF that I would be aware of.
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