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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: HOW TO PRINT TROFF GENERATED PSC FILES IN LANDSCAPE MODE
- Message-ID: <4163@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 05:38:16 GMT
- References: <48936@ogicse.ogi.edu>
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- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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- In article <48936@ogicse.ogi.edu> rajesh@mse.ogi.edu (Rajesh Dighde) writes:
- >How can I program the postscript file so that the output
- >will be in landscape mode. Specifically I want to print
- >some tables generated by troff typesetter.
-
- What we need to know is what computer you're using, what kind
- of troff, and what you're using to convert troff output to
- PostScript. And, exactly what you want to do - just rotate
- and squish vertically to fit? Or what?
-
- The mechanics of doing this is by putting a bit of code
- at the top of each page that will do a translate and rotate
- and possibly a scale. Some of the troff packages have this
- built-in, and others will require manual editing of the
- PostScript output.
-
- If you have to manually edit each page, you want to put
- the following in right after each "%%Page:" comment:
-
- 612 0 translate 90 rotate
-
- (the above assumes 8.5" wide paper).
-
- You also have to tell troff that a page is 8.5" high - how
- you do this depends on which macro package you're using. In
- MM, use -rL8.5i. With man or ms, you usually have to insert
- a ".pl 8.5i" into your document.
-
- If you're using psroff (not Adobe Transcript), get your administrator
- to upgrade to Psroff 3.0 PL15 (available in ftp.uunet.ca
- distrib/chris_lewis/psroff3.0pl15), and read the manual page
- about landscape - it's builtin with PL15, and none of the above
- handwaving is necessary.
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