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- From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Changing a file from A size to letter
- Message-ID: <4813@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 07:46:52 GMT
- References: <DLA.93Jan13065032@se05.wg2.waii.com> <4781@vidiot.UUCP> <1993Jan19.160610.2421@walter.cray.com>
- Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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- In article <1993Jan19.160610.2421@walter.cray.com> goldman@orac.cray.com (Goldman of Chaos) writes:
- <In article <4781@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- <>In article <DLA.93Jan13065032@se05.wg2.waii.com> dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:
- <><Our printer freaks out if it gets a A4 Size request ... so in a PS
- <><file, I recieved, I changed the PageSize: to Letter ... but when it
- <><prints out it still thinks its A4 .... where else should I look>
- <>
- <>Reformat the document for letter paper.
- <>
- <>Once the PostScript file is made, there is nothing you can do, since all of
- <>the positioning of text and lines, etc., is based upon the A4 area.
- <
- <I beg to differ. If you find where the pre-page processing is done,
- <then you can scale the page up/down, and move the page around.
- <
- < 5 -5 translate % added to fit on 8.5 x 11 paper
- < .90 .90 scale % added to fit on 8.5 x 11 paper
- <
- <Put in the right place will put it on the paper, although a bit
- <smaller than perfect 8.5x11 paper.
-
- In a later posting, I did mention that the A4 output could be scaled equally
- in both the X and Y directons. But, at 100%, A4 output will not fit on letter
- paper, unless the margins happen to make the output < 8.5" x 11".
-
- So, 100% = pretty much no, while scaled = pretty much yes.
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