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- From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- Subject: Re: Poster/Tiler
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:04:02 GMT
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- In article <1jmcrtINNpt5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- (Jeffrey T. Hansen) writes:
- > We've got a Laserjet II NTX, which gives
- > us a 8" x 10 1/2" printing area, and I produce drawings that are
- > 30" x 42". I'd like to be able to take a drawing, and have the
- > printer break it into tiles like poster, but have the tile move about
- > the drawing rather than have the drawing enlarged from a small
- > area.
-
- Do you mean LaserWriter IINTX? If so, do you have a disk
- drive attached to it?
-
- The easiest way I've found to make posters of PostScript
- files is to have a program set up a new graphics state for a
- tile, execute the program you want to make a poster of and
- repeat as necessary.
-
- The most effective way to do this is to run the poster image
- from a file. To do this, you need to have a filesystem
- available to the PostScript engine. This works in nearly
- all cases, and it's probably the best way to do this
- automatically.
-
- In some cases, you can just execute the code of the image
- over and over again in a loop. Program 13 in The Blue Book
- does this. If your code is too complicated, this won't
- work.
-
- You could also try putting your program in an executable
- string and running it that way, but, again, if it's too big
- or complex it will fail.
-
- I can post the code to make posters from a file, but the last
- time I did, people told me it wasn't useful because they
- don't have filesystems on their printers. That's really
- a shame because it makes your printer so much more
- powerful and useful. Their loss. :-)
-
- ab
-