Printing selected pages of a PostScript file
If you're running X windows, the simplest way to print selected pages
of a postscript file is from the graphical postscript viewer gv:
athena% gv filename.ps
Then, select the pages you want to print by clicking with the middle
button on the page numbers listed on the left side of the window - a
little red box will appear by the pages you've selected. Once you've
selected all the pages you want, do "print marked pages" under the
File menu.
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If you're not on an X window system, there is a program called "psrev"
you can use that will let you print only selected pages from
DSC-compliant PostScript files (the file must adhere to special
Document Structuring Conventions; not all applications create
PostScript files which do).
If the file is DSC-compliant, then "psrev" is an excellent way to save
time and paper if you just need a few pages from a long document. For
example, if you wanted to print only pages 3 to 6 of a PostScript file,
then you would type:
psrev -R -s 3-6 file.PS | lpr -Pprinter
where "printer" is the name of your favorite PostScript printer. The -s
options are:
N-M print pages N through M
-N print beginning to page N
M- print page M to the end
A,B,C print only pages A, B, and C
NOTE that you need to specify the *actual* page numbers, not the numbers
that print on top of each page. For documents that have a title page,
add one to the page numbers you give to psrev. (In the above example,
"3-6" would be "4-7".)
If you have a Latex document, see our stock answer on that.
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