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In article <1jmcrtINNpt5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu  
(Jeffrey T. Hansen) writes:
> We've got a Laserjet II NTX, which gives
> us a 8" x 10 1/2" printing area, and I produce drawings that are
> 30" x 42".  I'd like to be able to take a drawing, and have the
> printer break it into tiles like poster, but have the tile move about
> the drawing rather than have the drawing enlarged from a small 
> area.  

Do you mean LaserWriter IINTX?  If so, do you have a disk
drive attached to it?

The easiest way I've found to make posters of PostScript
files is to have a program set up a new graphics state for a
tile, execute the program you want to make a poster of and
repeat as necessary.

The most effective way to do this is to run the poster image
from a file.  To do this, you need to have a filesystem
available to the PostScript engine.  This works in nearly
all cases, and it's probably the best way to do this
automatically. 

In some cases, you can just execute the code of the image
over and over again in a loop.  Program 13 in The Blue Book
does this.  If your code is too complicated, this won't
work.

You could also try putting your program in an executable
string and running it that way, but, again, if it's too big
or complex it will fail.

I can post the code to make posters from a file, but the last
time I did, people told me it wasn't useful because they
don't have filesystems on their printers.  That's really
a shame because it makes your printer so much more
powerful and useful.  Their loss. :-)

ab

In a previous article, ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) says:

>In article <1jmcrtINNpt5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu  
>(Jeffrey T. Hansen) writes:
>> We've got a Laserjet II NTX, which gives
>> us a 8" x 10 1/2" printing area, and I produce drawings that are
>> 30" x 42".  I'd like to be able to take a drawing, and have the
>> printer break it into tiles like poster, but have the tile move about
>> the drawing rather than have the drawing enlarged from a small 
>> area.  
>
>Do you mean LaserWriter IINTX?  If so, do you have a disk
>drive attached to it?
>

Yes, I meant LaserWriter IINTX, and no, we don't have a disk
attached directly too it.  Even worse, I'm trying to print my
postscript files from a DOS box that is connected to the printer
through a TOPS network.  The printer serves the Mac network that
the 'front office' uses, and we folks in the underfunded CAD dept.
get the leftovers, basically.  (Even though the CAD department 
produces billable work, and the front office is overhead ...)

>

So, if there's a program that does the work on the host machine,
and then sends the output to the printer, that's what I can use.
Otherwise, it's pie in the sky, dream time stuff ... :)


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Jeffrey T. Hansen
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