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Article #2498Re: Landscape output from psroff
From: Peter Bartel
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 1991 06:15
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 1991 06:15
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Thanks to those who replied to my original request. It seems that some
people have a different version of psroff to mine (written by Chris Lewis).
Other versions seem to be based around ditroff which I don't have. At
least one version has landscape support built-in.
The following reply was particularly helpful:
From article <2562@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de>, by net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de
(Oliver Laumann):
> In article <1991Jan18.055212.16845@TIRS.oz.au> pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes:
>> Anybody know how to get landscape output to an Apple Laserwriter IINT from
>> psroff?
>
> Yes. In the PostScript prolog for psdit (psdit.pro), change the line
> reading
>
> /xi {0 72 11.7 mul translate 72 resolution div dup neg scale 0 0 moveto
>
> into
>
> /xi {90 rotate 72 resolution div dup neg scale 0 0 moveto
>
Although I don't have appear to have psdit.pro, the principle here is
sound, and I put the following lines in my postscript output before printing:
800 0 translate
90 rotate
This works nicely.
Without having tried it yet, I believe the appropriate place to put these
lines is in ps.lib on my system. A fairly simple mod to the psroff script
could select different ps.lib files based on a command line switch, say
-L.
_______________________________________________________________________
Peter Bartel Senior Software Engineer International
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