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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Landscape printing under (di)troff/PostScript
Message-ID: <3104@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 3 Aug 89 14:01:57 GMT
References: <81=g024X36Zp01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <3085@skinner.nprdc.arpa> <2502@astroatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <2502@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>Unfortunately, Adobe officially doesn't support landscape in their version.
>Sun ported a version and added the -L option.  I was told by Adobe that they
>are thinking of adding it to a later version.  We are getting Adobe source
>and will be modifying it with information that I received from another net
>person.
>
>When someone else also posted a message like you did, I went digging through
>our manuals and the script files.  Nowhere was the -L option supported.
>So I asked Adobe and got the answer I gave above.

Checking the psdit prolog, I find that the only change is to have a
second page setup call that rotates the page 90 degrees -- in the '/xi'
definition, it does an 11" translation along the Y axis, and in the
'/xiL' definition, which is called when landscape mode is selected, it
does an 8.5" translation in X, an 11" translation in Y, and a -90
rotation -- otherwise the functions are identical.

You should be able fairly trivially to make a new copy of the psdit
prolog and change '0 72 11 mul translate' to
'72 8.5 mul 72 11 mul translate -90 rotate', and use the -p flag to
psdit to make it read the modified prolog instead of the stock one.

Our psdit.pro file is in /usr/local/lib/lw/psdit.pro -- the man page
should say where it is.


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