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In article <48936@ogicse.ogi.edu> rajesh@mse.ogi.edu (Rajesh Dighde) writes:
>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.

What we need to know is what computer you're using, what kind
of troff, and what you're using to convert troff output to
PostScript.  And, exactly what you want to do - just rotate
and squish vertically to fit?  Or what?

The mechanics of doing this is by putting a bit of code
at the top of each page that will do a translate and rotate
and possibly a scale.  Some of the troff packages have this
built-in, and others will require manual editing of the
PostScript output.

If you have to manually edit each page, you want to put
the following in right after each "%%Page:" comment:

    612 0 translate 90 rotate

(the above assumes 8.5" wide paper).

You also have to tell troff that a page is 8.5" high - how
you do this depends on which macro package you're using.  In
MM, use -rL8.5i.  With man or ms, you usually have to insert
a ".pl 8.5i" into your document.

If you're using psroff (not Adobe Transcript), get your administrator
to upgrade to Psroff 3.0 PL15 (available in ftp.uunet.ca
distrib/chris_lewis/psroff3.0pl15), and read the manual page
about landscape - it's builtin with PL15, and none of the above
handwaving is necessary.
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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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