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I hope this has not been discussed recently, but I have just
discovered this news group... 

Here is my problem: we have an Apple LaserWriter IIg (with 5 megs of
memory) attached through a serial port to a Sun workstation on which
the Transcript package is installed. I can print to this printer just
fine, but there is one problem: the maximum size of the printing area
is smaller than on some other printers we have and often times any
attempt to print something close to the page borders results in a
"cropping" effect. To demonstrate that it's the printer actually
defining a smaller printing area, I wrote this little piece of code:

%! Postscript file
/strbuffer 256 string def

% show printing area in gray
clippath 0.9 setgray fill

0 setgray	% restore filling gray to black
clippath	% get clipping path again
pathbbox	% lower left x, lower left y, upper right x, upper right y

% show actual coordinates of printing area
/Courier-Bold findfont 15 scalefont setfont
strbuffer cvs 100 500 moveto (Upper right y: ) show show
strbuffer cvs 100 550 moveto (Upper right x: ) show show
strbuffer cvs 100 600 moveto (Lower left  y: ) show show
strbuffer cvs 100 650 moveto (Lower left  x: ) show show
showpage

Sure enough on the laserwriter IIg it produces a considerably smaller
shaded rectangle than on say a laserwriter II. The question I have is
therefore this: is it possible to define a larger printing area? The
only operator I could find to possibly help me is "framedevice" but it
requires the definition of a procedure to execute when showpage is
called and I have no idea what to put in there. Also, on page 88 of the
printer manual it says something about the imageable area being
dependent on the amount of installed memory: does it really mean that
5 megs of memory are not enough??

thanks a lot in advance for your help.
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Leonardo C. Topa
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room E25-506
45 Carleton Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

internet: lct@ai.mit.edu