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From: scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester)
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Subject: Printing on legal-size paper
Keywords: NeXT printer
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Date: 5 Jun 90 15:16:42 GMT
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I'm having trouble printing a TeX document on legal size paper.  I've
done the obvious, which includes:

% dvips -o manualfeed -o legal file.dvi

The result is that it doesn't apparently know that it's printing on
legal paper, i.e. the output is truncated at about 11 inches, and the
printer thinks that "Papuh is jammed in your printuh."  I even tried:

% dvips -f -o legal file.dvi > file.ps

which does not, of course, work (but which I included to show all of
you attentive net people that I *know* that it doesn't work :-), and
then:

% dvips -o legal file.dvi&
% su
# cd /usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer
# link d* file.ps
# : wait until the dvips finishes...
# lprm
# mv file.ps
# ^D
% lpr -M file.ps

Pretty gross, huh?  I've also tried this to a LaserWriter Plus, by
printing the PostScript file, created with the -o manualfeed option
to dvips.  The light blinks for a while and I eventually get a banner
page.

If I can complain a little while I'm here; why doesn't dvips have a -P
option like everything else does?  And why doesn't the -f option work?
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