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Article #295Re: How to get a free page size?
From: geointelligence
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:02
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:02
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On Jun 30, 7:31 am, "Jeffrey H. Coffield"
<jeff...@digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:
> geointellige...@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.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
The Illustrator CS2 can not create a PS file. It can create a EPS
file. I created a EPS file, and found all "%%" comment. But didn't
find the command to change the page size. And then I looked for all
"100", but failed too.
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