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Re: HOW TO PRINT TROFF GENERATED PSC FILES IN LANDSCAPE MODE

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From: Vidiot
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:24
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In article <48936@ogicse.ogi.edu> rajesh@mse.ogi.edu (Rajesh Dighde) writes:
<Hello everyone,
<
<This is the first posting on this group from a "non computers"
<guy so bear with me for any silly/not-making-sense parlance.
<
<I have a question regarding printing postscript files
<generated using the troff typesetter in "LANDSCAPE" mode.
<
<How can I program the postscript file so that the output
<will be in landscape mode.  Specifically I want to print
<some tables generated by troff typesetter.
<
<Does any one have any pointers/suggestions
<on this?  And please explain in not too-technical jargon
<and in a step by step manner.  

You don't say which version of troff you are using.  Yes, there is more than
one.  I don't know about the DWB (Documentor's WorkBench) version 3.0, and
later, but old C/A/T troff and DWB 2.0+ version cannot handle anything that
wide.  They were built for portrait output only.

But, if you get the GNU version of troff, called groff, it has the ability
to do landscape output.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: HOW TO PRINT TROFF GENERATED PSC FILES IN LANDSCAPE MODE
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Date: 24 Jan 93 06:24:10 GMT
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