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Re: How to get a free page size?

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From: Jeffrey H. Coffield
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:31
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geointelligence@yahoo.com.cn wrote:
> 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.

You didn't mention Illustrator. Can you create a page the size you want 
and see if there is a "%%" comment that Illustrator uses?

Jeff C.
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