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Re: Most printer friendly version of the documentation?

by JavaFan (Canon)
on Aug 07, 2008 at 15:23 UTC ( [id://702902]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Most printer friendly version of the documentation?

If you want to optimize for the least amount of paper used, you could do: 
    pod2man Module.pm | a2ps -9

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That puts the entire documentation of CGI.pm on 6 sheets. If that's too small for you, you might want to use a2ps -6 or a2ps -4. But you'll need more paper then.

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Re^2: Most printer friendly version of the documentation?
by blazar (Canon) on Aug 07, 2008 at 22:20 UTC

    I personally believe that I must have given a wrong impression: I'm not aiming at extreme paper saving, just reasonable. If it were for that, I knew a2ps. (Although I've always been frightened by the number of its switches and never really bothered to learn them all, just using it for quick shots.) But then if I were to do a similar job, I would probably follow kyle's suggestion or Bloodnok's in conjunction with tools like psnup or pdfpages.

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      Well, extreme paper saving would be not printing at all, or converting the source with Acme::Bleach (skipping the first line of the result) prior to printout.

      An A5 booklet from an A4 printout with both sides covered looks like a very reasonable way of paper saving (to me, that i ;-)

      --shmem 

      _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
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