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Metafiles on NeXT

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From: John Duchowski
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 18:36
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Hi there,

	I am running into problmes trying to print a "metafile" on a NeXT
laser printer.  Parts of the file (ca. 500 K) are included below.  It is
supposed to consist of four squares (a la some window frames) each of which
has a wire mesh graph depicting wavefunctions of coupled harmonic oscillators.
It comes from a book called Quantum Mechanics on Personal Computer.  According
to the instructions in the book, the files arew set up to work with a printer
using A4 paper which is what we are using (8.5 by 11).  However, all I get
is an image about the size of a *very* small postage stamp located in the
middle of a page.  To be sure, it is showing what it is supposed to show,
but it's pretty nearly impossible to view without a fairly large magnifying
glass.  Would anyone have any idea how I could fix this ?  Any hints and
or comments would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks !


					 - John

P.S.
	I could send/ftp the entire file to anyone who's interested - just
didn't want to clutter up the net this time :-)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%!
initgraphics
/p {2.3622 mul setlinewidth
moveto /eoloop exch def 2 1 eoloop
{pop rlineto}for stroke}bind def
.1 .1 scale
1 setlinecap
1 setlinejoin
 0 323 -227 0 0 -323 227 0 0 0 6 2149 3368 1 p -227 0 0 0 3 2376 
 3207 1 p 0 323 0 0 3 2262 3045 1 p 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 
 0 0 0 10 2296 3290 3 p 0 -1 0 0 3 2296 3291 3 p 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
 .
 .
 . about 6000 lines deleted
 .
 .
 -2 -2 1 -1 0 0 7 2170 3084 1 p 2 0 0 0 3 2164 3074 1 p -1 4 0 0 3 
 2165 3072 1 p 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -1 0 0 10 2162 3072 1 p 
 0 -2 0 1 0 0 4 2162 3073 1 p 
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From: duchow@watnxt3.ucr.edu (John Duchowski)
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Subject: Metafiles on NeXT
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Date: 14 Mar 91 18:36:38 GMT
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