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- From: merchant@cbnews.cb.att.com (shahrukh.s.merchant)
- Newsgroups: comp.text
- Subject: Re: PIC: How to stop it from 'shrinking'
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.182741.27@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 18:27:41 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.141421.1911@mach4.wlu.ca>
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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
-