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Article #5083Help! A Simple Question...
From: James Michael Anderson
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 03:15
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 03:15
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Ok, so here's the story: I have a graphing package (PLOT2) that has
produced a Postscript file as output. When I print the file, it
comes out in landscape mode and fills the length of the 11" paper.
I want to print the graph out in portrait mode and I want it to
be no wider than 6 1/2 inches. My problem is that I do not read
Postscript and I am unsure of what I have to change in order to
get what I want!
I have been able to figure out a little bit of the language. Listed
below is a shortened version of my file. I know that if I change the
"90 rotate" line to "0 rotate" and the line that reads:
"0 -8.5 72 mul translate"
can be changed to:
"0 0 72 mul translate"
which will cause the figure to be printed in portrait mode; however,
its still to wide! What else do I have to do?
============ Postscript file listing follows! =====================
%!
%%Title: stdin
%%Creator: f2ps
%%CreationDate: Tue Mar 19 18:43:26 1991
%%For: ja@wucec1 (Jim Anderson,,,)
%%Pages: 1
%%BoundingBox: 72 252 540 540
%%EndComments
/$F2psDict 32 dict def $F2psDict begin $F2psDict /mtrx matrix put
end /$F2psBegin {$F2psDict begin /$F2psEnteredState save def} def /$F2psEnd {$F2psEnteredState restore end} def
%%EndProlog
$F2psBegin
1 setlinecap
1 setlinejoin
90 rotate
0 -8.5 72 mul translate
72 1000 div dup scale
10 setlinewidth
10 setlinewidth
2657 2165 moveto 2742 2165 lineto stroke
%% (rest of the figure is described here)
showpage
$F2psEnd
============ End of Postscript file listing =====================
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!wuarchive!cec2!news From: jma7759@cec1.wustl.edu (James Michael Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Help! A Simple Question... Keywords: postscript, rotate, scaleing Message-ID: <1991Mar20.031537.22872@cec1.wustl.edu> Date: 20 Mar 91 03:15:37 GMT Sender: jma7759@wucec1.wustl.edu Distribution: na Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO Lines: 52