Legal size paper and TeX

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1 total messages Started by Craig Artley Wed, 15 Apr 1992 02:00

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Author: Craig Artley
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 02:00

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I'm unable to get TeX to print on legal size paper.  I've got TeXview
3.0 alpha 8 and dvips 5.483.  I still have the old versions, so if you
know how to make it work with them, that's just as good.

I've set \special{papersize=8.5,14} at the top of the .tex file, and
reset the \textheight (this is LaTeX).  TeXview shows the file just
fine, but when I print (manual feed), the printer doesn't seem to
realize it is legal size paper.  The top of the text is truncated
and there is a lot of white space at the bottom.

I saved the PostScript to a file, and it looks good.  It has these
comments, which are correct:
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 1008
%%DocumentPaperSizes: Legal

I see similar comments when I look at the PostScript from a WriteNow
file that I did on legal-sized paper (set in the Page Layout window).
That one prints correctly, but the TeX output does not.

Another funny thing is that when I view the .ps file created with
dvips in Preview, the text is positioned properly on the page.
It just won't print right!

If you know how to make this work with the older version of dvips,
that's great too.

Help me get a clue,
	-craig
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Craig Artley    cartley@mines.colorado.edu    (303) 273-3557
Geophysics Dept., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
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Bob Ware, System Administrator 
Computing and Networking, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co 80401, USA
(303) 273-3987
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