#!/bin/bash # ## Poster_resize - resize a postscript file. ## ##------------------------------------------------------------- ## adapted to bash by Fabricio Ferrari, based on poster_resize ## original version v1.0 (see below) from Peter Hirschfeld at ## http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~pjh ##-------------------------------------------------------------- # Making and printing a poster using latex poster macros # These are instructions for preparing and printing a large-format poster # appropriate for conference presentation. Click here # to get a postscript file containing a full poster example. View it in # ghostview with "seascape" orientation & 0.25 magnification (in the PC # version (GSView) you may have to use the "User Defined" options in Media # menu; set width to 900 and height to 1200). # 1. Making the poster file # * Download template latex source file UFposter.tex, blank figure ps # file blank.ps, and UF logo ps file LetterShape.eps # # * You may wish to preview this file to get a sense of how it looks. # To do this: # latex UFposter.tex # dvips -o UFposter.ps UFposter # gv UFposter.ps # In Ghostview (gv), choose "Seascape" from the orientation menu and # 0.25 magnification from magnification menu to view the full page. # On a PC (GSView) try "User Defined" option in Media menu with # width=900, height=1200. If you want to view the text in the # poster, you may need a larger magnification. # * Edit the file with your favorite text editor. Enter your text & # encapsulated postscript figures, using the macros used in the # template. Follow the steps above to create a ps file for viewing # as you add & make corrections. Free advice: latex and preview # often while coding. # * Sizing. You will note in header to UFposter.tex source that # various sizes are possible. These are defined in terms of # Hoehe(Height) und Breite (Width). (macros are originally from # someone in Germany & were cribbed from U. Karlsruhe by P. # Hirschfeld) The recommended procedure is to first generate a # "Special Format" size poster file, which is relatively easy to # manipulate and view. It can be resized later to A0 (90 x 110 cm) # full poster size, or A4 or Letter size as desired (see below). # Note the large format printers currently in use at UF's OIR have # max width of about 90cm or 3 ft., but the paper comes in rolls so # the length is variable. See below the specifications for width and # height of various formats. Default in the template is "Special # Format", 32 x 39cm with 4 columns. This is the format of the # template currently. # Once you have edited your latex file and have a nice "Special # Format" size poster, you need to resize file to a size suitable # for printing. Recommended size: A0 (roughly 110cm by 90cm). To do # this, # 1. Download the postscript resizing script poster_resize. # 2. Choose your scale factor S. To make recommended size poster # (A0), choose S=2.82. To get roughly letter-size poster which # will print onto a single letter-size sheet, choose S=.67. # 3. Type # | poster_resize UFposter.ps S | # where UFposter.ps is your postscript file, and S is the # scale factor. This should produce a new file names # UFposter.resize.ps in which the bounding boxes are changed, # etc. You can rename it so that you can remember the size, # e.g. UFposterA0.ps. Check UFposterA0 one last time before # printing! # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # pjh@phys.ufl.edu # # # Last modified 2/13/00 PSRESIZE=/usr/bin/psresize # Path to psresize echo "" echo "poster_resize v1.1 (v1.0 modified by FF 2004)" # Remove ending ".ps" if $1 is not empty FILE= if [ -n "$1" ] then FILE=`basename $1 .ps` fi INFILE=${FILE}.ps OUTFILE=${FILE}.resize.ps TMPFILE=/tmp/ps-resize.$$.ps # Test existence of the PS File if [ ! -r "${INFILE}" ] then ### DVI-File not found if [ -z "$1" ] then echo "error: no input file specified" else echo "error: file "${INFILE}" not found" fi echo "usage: poster_resize_UF []" exit fi echo "Input file: ${INFILE}" # Is a Scale specified? if [ -n "$2" ] then SCALE=$2 echo "Specified scale-factor is: ${SCALE}" else SCALE=2.828 echo "No scale-factor specified. Using default value (ie. A3->A0): ${SCALE}" fi # Do the job TEMP=`grep '%%BoundingBox: ' ${FILE}.ps` read -r DUMMY X0 Y0 X1 Y1 < ${OUTFILE} rm -f ${TMPFILE} echo "Job done. Created: ${OUTFILE}" echo ""