BindBook - a package for creating bound, glued, and folder books
BINDBOOK is a package for creating bound, glued, and/or folder books.
It assists in producing signatures ("booklets") for bound books
from PostScript files, and other book-producing activities. It was written
around the middle of the 1990s, when most privately affordable printers were
constant-width and could not print double-sided.
BINDBOOK -
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Creates signatures ("booklets") for bound books; sheets to be cut in
half to create half-size stacks; and the usual 2-up sheets.
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Is the only program I know of that will produce a full set of
signatures for a complete book, including the fly leaves.
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Does automatic signature balancing to avoid a final signature with
one or two pages on it.
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When called twice, will produce nifty little booklets or 4-up sheets.
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Works on a range of PostScript styles.
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Can concatenate PostScript files.
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Produces two PostScript files, one to be printed on one side of the
paper and on for the other side. Alternatively, produces one file,
if your printer can print two-sided.
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Is adaptable to different paper sizes.
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Can be restricted to a range of pages, to replace pages lost
while printing.
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Can handle both portrait and landscape input.
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Allows fine adjustments for positioning, gutter width and
magnification to be specified on the command line.
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Allows multiple input files, including standard input.
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Contains mechanisms to patch up questionable PostScript input.
IMPORTANT -
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You don't have to have a PostScript printer or a PostScript cartridge on your
printer: GNU's program `gs' (Ghostscript) will print PostScript files on almost
any printer.
MOREOVER -
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The manual page
contains step-by-step recipes for creating five
kinds of books (but many more variants are possible).
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The manual page contains a small glossary of bookbinding terms.
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Source code in C is supplied.
It compiles under MS-DOS and UNIX, using GNU's gcc.
BindBook / Dick Grune /
dick@dickgrune.com
... and my name is not Richard ...
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