Re: Break down drawing larger than pagesize ?

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From: peter da silva
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:36

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In article <1992Dec22.025320.5909@leeweyr.sccsi.com> bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee) writes:
> I do not believe this can be done in most PostScript interpreters for an
> ARBITRARY image. 

It should be possible for any DSC compliant document, via a preprocessor
that, for each page:

	emits appropriate scale and translate commands for the portion of
	the page required.

	emits the page.

This, of course, increases the size of the document enormously.
-- 
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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Break down drawing larger than pagesize ?
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