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I've recently set up a laserwriter IInt using transcript from a unix
machine.  Everything's working ok, except that the output is shifted
down almost an inch down on the page from where it should be, leaving a
large amount of white space on the top of every page, and cutting off
parts of the bottom of every page.

i don't know very much about postscript, but from a few hours of
reading, my guess was that the default transformation matrix is off.
If i send a

0 60 translate

to the printer before sending a file, everything's ok, but the effect of
the translate gets wiped out after the first showpage.  the only thing i
can find in the language manual that seems pertinent is the framdevice
operator.  however, framedevice takes a "proc" operand, which the manual
says is device dependent, and thus not documented.

my questions are:

is the solution to this problem to change the default transformation
matrix, as is my guess, or is there some other solution, or could this
be a hardware problem with the laserwiter?

if the solution is to change the default transformation matrix, how is
that done?  if framedevice is the correct operator, what should the proc
operand be for the laserwriter IInt?


Seth Strumph
seth@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu