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Article #581Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
From: Sean Malloy
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 14:16
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 14:16
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In article <2093@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >In article <81=g024X36Zp01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> dacwmk@uts.amdahl.com (William M. Kules) writes: >< ><Is landscape printing supported on troff/psdit driving a ><Post-Script printer? > >No, troff width is 7.54 inches. The troff output was designed for a C/A/T >phototypesetter, which is a vertical format printer only. Since we don't have >our copy of ditroff yet, I don't know what it can do. We have been using ditroff/psdit to generate landscape output for PostScript printers for several years now; we have a shell script called 'psroff' that was part of the package we got from Adobe that handles farming out the flags to the various subprograms. The '-L' (output is landscape mode) flag in psroff does nothing to tell ditroff that the page layout has changed (the information is passed only to psdit) -- you have to change the page length and line length manually. Also, you will get the error message 'po + ll greater than 7.54 inches', which you can ignore, since it's really a warning message. Sean Malloy | "The proton absorbs a photon Navy Personnel Research & Development Center | and emits two morons, a San Diego, CA 92152-6800 | lepton, a boson, and a malloy@nprdc.navy.mil | boson's mate. Why did I ever | take high-energy physics?"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!nprdc!malloy From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript Message-ID: <2518@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Date: 19 Jun 89 14:16:40 GMT References: <81=g024X36Zp01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <2093@astroatc.UUCP> Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Distribution: na Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego Lines: 28