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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
Message-ID: <3085@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 2 Aug 89 14:01:53 GMT
References: <81=g024X36Zp01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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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?

We have been using ditroff and psdit to generate landscape output for
well over a year now, and there are only four things you need to do to
get it:

1. If you have the TranScript package from Adobe, you will have a
'psroff' shell script that takes a '-L' flag for landscape mode. If
not, you will need to give psdit the '-L' flag (the psroff script
handles this internally).

2. In your troff document, set the page length to 8.5i and the line
length to whatever gives you even margins with your page offset (a
line length of 9i is about right).

3. Get used to seeing the message "po + ll greater than 7.54i" while
ditroff is running.



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