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Article #3198Re: Getting rid of cut marks in troff C/A/T output to LaserWriter Plus
From: Roy Smith
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1986 20:32
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1986 20:32
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In article <2369@psuvax1.UUCP> ehrlich@psuvax1.UUCP (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
> Can anyone suggest a method for eliminating the cut marks that troff
> generates? When the output from ptroff (Adobe's TranScript troff script)
> get printed on the LaserWriter Plus there are cut marks at the top of the
> page.
Ptroff is a shell script that essentially runs "troff | pscat |
lpr" with the proper assortment of arguments to the various commands. One
of the arguments to pscat (the C/A/T to PostScript translator) specifies a
Y offset to be used. We just made the offset big enough to push the cut
mark out of the image area. Quick and dirty, but it works. Ah, if only
all troff problems were that simple to solve!
--
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
"you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Getting rid of cut marks in troff C/A/T output to LaserWriter Plus Message-ID: <2547@phri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Dec-86 15:32:28 EST Article-I.D.: phri.2547 Posted: Wed Dec 24 15:32:28 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Dec-86 18:40:58 EST References: <2369@psuvax1.UUCP> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Distribution: na Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 18 Keywords: LaserWriter Plus, PostScript, TranScript, ptroff