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From: dgc@euphemia.math.ucla.edu (David G. Cantor)
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Subject: Re: Printing on legal-size paper
Keywords: NeXT printer
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Date: 5 Jun 90 22:27:30 GMT
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In article <9594@tank.uchicago.edu> scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott
Deerwester) writes:

	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 . . .
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This is one of several related problems with dvips on the NeXT.  To make
legal size work on the NeXT it is necessary that the comment

    %%PaperSize: Legal

appear immediately after the comment

    %%BeginSetup

in the generated postscript.  Similarly, to make manual feed work, you
must insert the comment

    %%Feature: ManualFeed True

in the same section of the generated postscript.

I have modified my own version of dvips to do these things, but haven't
distributed it because I haven't had time to make everything work.  For
example, the combination of legalsize and landscape is still fouled up.

To learn about these arcane mysteries look at the postscript generated
by WriteNow (obtainable by using preview from the print panel).  I might
note, in the interests of arcanity that the above doesn't work when the
moon is full and the tide is low :-).

dgc

David G. Cantor
Department of Mathematics
University of California at Los Angeles
Internet:  dgc@math.ucla.edu