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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
Message-ID: <2590@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 21 Jun 89 18:27:58 GMT
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In article <2115@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>The psroff section has no mention of the -L or -M options.  Here at my
>new job, the online manual has the same problem, as it is exactly the
>same software release.

>Explanation would be appreciated.

In the lib/psdit.pro file on our system, we have two procedures
defined: xi and xiL. The -L flag passed to psdit determines whether xi
or xiL is called immediately before the '%%EndProlog' line.

The definition for xi is:

/xi {0 72 11 mul translate 72 resolution div dup neg scale 0 0 moveto
  /fontnum 1 def /fontsize 10 def /fontheight 10 def /fontslant 0 def F
  /pagesave save def}def

The definition for xiL is:

/xiL {0 72 8.25 mul 72 11 mul translate -90 rotate
  72 resolution div dup neg scale 0 0 moveto
  /fontnum 1 def /fontsize 10 def /fontheight 10 def /fontslant 0 def F
  /pagesave save def}def

The changes to psdit.c are logged as being made 87/10/13, after the
changes required to add support for psfig (added 87/9/29). Basically,
the change involved adding the check for the -L flag in main(),
setting a variable according to whether it was found, and in t_init()
changing the normal "x i" initialization to "xi" or "xiL" depending on
the state of the variable.


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