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In article <1992Jul24.141421.1911@mach4.wlu.ca> derwin@mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin) writes:
>I am creating a pic file to put on an 8 x 11 sheet. PIC insists on
>shrinking the file down to 7 X 8 (or so). 
>
>How can I override this shrinking?
>
>I have tried
>
>scale = 1
>.PS 8 11

Well, I don't know which version of pic you have, but the following is
true for the version we have installed here.

1. Pic does NO scaling until either the horizontal dimension exceeds
   8-1/2" or the vertical 11".
2. If either of these dimensions is exceeded, pic will scale the
   offending dimension down to SEVEN inches (why not 8-1/2, or 11,
   or 7 for horizontal and 10 for vertical, who's to say?).  So
   if you truly want an 8-1/2 x 11 picture in portrait mode, as long
   as your picture is not straying an iota (+- one LSB on your
   system :-)) from the maximum dimensions above, you should be
   OK.
3. In DWB version something-or-the-other, the variables maxpswid
   and maxpsht were added.  If you set these appropriately, e.g.,
		maxpswid=17i
		maxpsht=11i
   for a landscape-mode drawing on 11x17" paper, pic will not
   invoke its automatic scaling until those dimensions are
   exceeded.  If you do exceed these, it will scale to -- what
   else? -- 7 inches (I told you, don't ask me why 7 inches!).

					Shahrukh Merchant
					merchant@mvuxd.att.com