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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
Message-ID: <2518@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 19 Jun 89 14:16:40 GMT
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Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
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In article <2093@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <81=g024X36Zp01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> dacwmk@uts.amdahl.com (William M. Kules) writes:
><
><Is landscape printing supported on troff/psdit driving a
><Post-Script printer?
>
>No, troff width is 7.54 inches.  The troff output was designed for a C/A/T
>phototypesetter, which is a vertical format printer only.  Since we don't have
>our copy of ditroff yet, I don't know what it can do.

We have been using ditroff/psdit to generate landscape output for
PostScript printers for several years now; we have a shell script
called 'psroff' that was part of the package we got from Adobe that
handles farming out the flags to the various subprograms. The '-L'
(output is landscape mode) flag in psroff does nothing to tell
ditroff that the page layout has changed (the information is passed
only to psdit) -- you have to change the page length and line length
manually.

Also, you will get the error message 'po + ll greater than 7.54 inches',
which you can ignore, since it's really a warning message.


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