Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript

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From: Vidiot
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 16:52

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In article <2518@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
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<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.

Great, when we finally get our ditroff I will be trying out the landscape mode.
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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
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Date: 19 Jun 89 16:52:13 GMT
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