Re: PostScript and big images

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From: Mark Linton
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:54

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In article <1992Sep12.113737.1826@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>, ringel@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Joerg Ringel) writes:
|> I create a big Glyph, which I can see with something like
|> the Scrollable, in my program.
|> 
|> Now I want to create a PostScript file of it.
|> 
|> My problem is, that I don't want to print all 1:1
|> of the image (Glyph's) with the printer.
|> 
|> I've set the Allocation to the bounds of my viewer.
|> I think all the information to print are in the file, but
|> he prints only on one page.
|> 
|> What can I do to tell him, that he has to print more pages?

There is no automatic way (nor is one obvious to me) to paginate an image.
You must implement this yourself.  You need to use Printer::page
to generate PostScript showpage operations.

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