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Re: How to get a free page size?

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From: geointelligence
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:50
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On Jun 28, 9:12 pm, "Jeffrey H. Coffield"
<jeff...@digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:
> geointellige...@yahoo.com.cn wrote:
> > In next example the page's size is A4. I want change it to
> > 100cm*100cm. I tried many methods, but could not do it. Who can tell
> > me a right way? Please modify the example complete code.
>
> Most of the printers I work with will use the setpagedevice to set the
> page size, so for 100cm x 100xm (39.37in x 39.37in) ((That's a big sheet
> for a Postscript printer)).
>
> > %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> > %%Title: Blue Book Program 3, on page 137
> > %%Creator: Adobe Systems Incorporated
> > %%CreationDate: Thu Dec 28 13:17:45 PST 1989
> > %%EndComments
>
> /cm {72 mul 2.54 div} def
> <</PageSize [100 cm 100 cm]>> setpagedevice
>
>
>
>
>
> > /ellipsedict 8 dict def
> > ellipsedict /mtrx matrix put
> > /ellipse
> >    { ellipsedict begin
> >      /endangle exch def
> >      /startangle exch def
> >      /yrad exch def
> >      /xrad exch def
> >      /y exch def
> >      /x exch def
>
> >      /savematrix mtrx currentmatrix def
> >      x y translate
> >      xrad yrad scale
> >      0 0 1 startangle endangle arc
> >      savematrix setmatrix
> >      end
> >    } def
>
> > newpath
> >   144 400 72 144 0 360 ellipse
> > stroke
>
> > newpath
> >   400 400 144 36 0 360 ellipse
> > fill
>
> > newpath
> >   300 180 144 72 30 150 ellipse
> > stroke
>
> > newpath
> >   480 150 30 50 270 90 ellipse
> > fill
>
> > showpage
>
> Jeff Coffieldwww.digitalsynergyinc.com- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


I used this method try again. But the page size did not change when I
opened it in Illustrator CS2. It was still A4.
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Subject: Re: How to get a free page size?
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