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- From: thomas@ozcrwl (Hugh Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Landscape printing in Final Copy II
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.011929.18005@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:19:29 GMT
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- aquirt@bnr.ca (Alan Quirt) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan27.024132.29423@socrates.umd.edu>,
- : rocky@socrates.umd.edu (Rocky Giannini) wrote:
- : > Does Final Copy have the ability to print in "landscape" (sideways on the
- : > paper) mode? I know that Prowrite has this feature, but from what I've
- : > been reading, Final Copy II has much over Prowrite in printing capabilities.
- :
- : It will print Postscript in landscape mode, to a file or to an attached
- : printer, but it will not print landscape pages in its regular graphics
- : mode. Too bad.
-
- Technically correct, but of limited usefullness depending on what you want.
-
- Specifying "landscape" simply rotates each page by 90 degrees ON OUTPUT, but
- the pages you entered are still in "portrait" alignment. So you end up with
- the first half of your page down the left hand side of the (landscape oriented)
- output page. The rest of the output just drops off the edge of the page.
-
- I did succeed in getting proper landscape output (i.e. text running the full
- width of the landscape page) but it took a bit of fiddling...
-
- First I tried swapping the page "height" and "width" values in the Page Setup
- menu. Unfortunately FCII complained that the width I'd entered was out of
- range (I was using A4 dimensions). I reduced the width value bit by bit
- until I found a value it would accept. It was only a 1 or 2cm below what I
- wanted so I just increased the "print area" and "edit area" up to the edge of
- the page to effectively get the correct usable area.
- Once I'd entered the text I printed it with "landscape" option and it came
- out OK. Note that doing it this way all pages in your document must be in
- landscape orientation, you can't mix and match.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Hugh.
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