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From: rauletta@gmu90x.UUCP (rauletta)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript,comp.text.desktop
Subject: Eroff & Legal paper
Keywords: Elan Eroff ditroff troff Legal Ledger postscript problem
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Date: 22 Jun 89 21:20:39 GMT
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Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
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 I have recently posted this question but have realized that the
subject line may have not been very clear so I thought I would
try one more time.

I am using Elan's version of troff, Eroff, and would like to
print on legal size (or bigger paper). The original question was
about selecting manual feed and legal size paper on a postscript
laser, in particular a LaserWriter. Well the output of eps is pretty
close and contains the necessary procedure.
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/mf { statusdict /manualfeed true put } bind def
/af { statusdict /manualfeed false put } bind def
af

Just change the af to mf and add legal to the mf procedure

/mf { statusdict legal /manualfeed true put } bind def

and things work except the text is magnified and hence only a
small part of the page appears on the output.

I was wondering what postscript commands might be responsible for
this so I might track down the necessary changes. I have the
postscript reference manual and should have the cookbook this
weekend but a pointer in the right direction would be a big help.

--R. J. Auletta
  rauletta@gmu90x.gmu.edu
  rauletta@gmuvax2.gmu.edu