Req. Freeware version of FinePrint

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Hello,

Looking for a freeware replacement for this:

http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html

Thanks!
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Fineprint was on the 2003 Freeware Wish List, but it no longer appears
on the 2005 Freeware Wish List. I guess some program may fit the bill,
but I could not locate a Cross Reference List that indicates which
application(s) may be a replacement for Fineprint.

PrintFile is a freeware MS Windows utility program that will enable you
to print files fast and easily. The program recognizes plain text,
PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and binary formats. Using this
program can save you a lot of paper and thereby also saving valuable
natural resources.

When printing text files PrintFile makes a configurable page layout of
the text contents. Several logical pages can be placed on one page of
physical paper (referred to as n-up printing). There are also several
other configurable options controlling the layout. Text files can be
printed on any printer that has a Windows printer driver. Text copied to
the clipboard can also be printed in the same manner as text files.
PrintFile can also do user configurable Pretty Printing of text files.
Keywords and comments can be highlighted using different font styles and
colors. This function is primarily intended for source code files.

http://www.lerup.com/printfile/
 
Mel wrote in said:
Fineprint was on the 2003 Freeware Wish List, but it no longer appears
on the 2005 Freeware Wish List. I guess some program may fit the bill,
but I could not locate a Cross Reference List that indicates which
application(s) may be a replacement for Fineprint.
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Maybe PCmags "pcbook2.zip" could have been a candidate, but
unfortunately - as we all know - it is no longer freeware (you must
sign up to their pay-for-access web if you want a legal copy of
it).....


All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Looking for a freeware replacement for this:

http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html
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The best workaround I can think of (at the moment) requires a detour
into Pdf creation. First you'll need some means to make a *.pdf file.
FreePdfXP works straightforward (in combination with Ghostscript):

http://freepdfxp.de

Depending on the printer driver linked to FreePdf you might already
be able to select booklet printing right inside the 'Advanced' driver
dialog. I haven't dug too deeply into the available drivers. But all
PS drivers for Win2k and WinXP I examined, only let you select to
print two or more pages on one page - at best. (Some won't even do
that.) This way you don't get the necessary page re-ordering required
for booklet printing.

So another tool is needed. There are some utilities converting *.ps
documents to booklets (like pstops or psbook and psnup from the
psutils package.) I didn't find them working too robust on Win.

Far better is the pdfbklt Perl script from Martin Hosken:

http://search.cpan.org/src/MHOSKEN/Text-PDF-0.25/scripts/pdfbklt.plx

The latest version is v1.6. There is also a compiled version which
is slightly older (v1.505) but does very well:

http://www.sil.org/~hosken/Utils/top.html
http://www.sil.org/~hosken/Utils/pdfbklt.zip

Be aware that PdfBklt writes *all* pages it finds inside the source
*.pdf into *one large booklet*. So if you want to create sections
maybe 16 pages each, then you need to create different *.pdf files
for each section, first. After you ran those through PdfBklt you
can combine them using the FreePdf Join assistant.

The resulting *.pdf file can be printed on every printer you have
installed.

BeAr
 
vbMark said:
Hello,

Looking for a freeware replacement for this:

http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html

Thanks!
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You want to print a booklet or something?

Why you don't try OpenOffice:
* It has a build in booklet function (i use the dutch version, i'm not
sure this is the right translation
* It's free
* It's Open Source, so many people are participating in this project
* Version 2 is almost ready (the non-stable version just released)

I switched this summer from WP to OpenOffice and i like it (except the
missing "reveal code" option)
 
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