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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
Message-ID: <2127@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 14:43:04 GMT
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In article <2590@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
<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:
<
<[... deleted ...]
<
<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.

This still doesn't explain why what we purchased from Adobe doesn't have
any of this.  One, at this point in time, we don't have the source.  We
are binary only.  Two, how do users get the code with the Landscape option?
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