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Article #3577Re: Landscape page orientation
From: Gisle Aas
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 1990 08:30
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 1990 08:30
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In article <21504@well.sf.ca.us> jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) writes: > Looks the same to me. If you really want to avoid paper-size dependencies, > try something like this: > > newpath clippath pathbbox newpath % llx lly urx ury > 3 -1 roll % llx urx ury lly > sub % llx urx height > /pageheight exch def % llx urx > exch sub % width > /pagewidth exch def > pagewidth 0 translate 90 rotate To get the right pageheight/width you have to add together ury/x and lly/x. The clippath defines an area smaller than the physical page. -- Gisle Aas | snail: Boks 114 Blindern, N-0314 Oslo, Norway Norsk Regnesentral | X.400: G=Gisle;S=Aas;O=nr;P=uninett;C=no voice: +47-2-453561 | inet: Gisle.Aas@nr.no
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!nuug!ulrik!ulrik!aas From: aas@boeygen.nr.no (Gisle Aas) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Landscape page orientation Message-ID: <AAS.90Nov7093033@boeygen.nr.no> Date: 7 Nov 90 08:30:33 GMT References: <1990Nov5.194437.12060@sq.sq.com> <21504@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (USENET News System) Reply-To: Gisle.Aas@nr.no Organization: Norwegain Computing Centre, Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: jef@well.sf.ca.us's message of 6 Nov 90 05:59:35 GMT