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From: melvin@cgdisis.cgd.ucar.edu (Lee Melvin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Dvips 4.2 landscape/laserwriter problem
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Date: 9 Jul 90 20:00:11 GMT
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In article <1990Jul6.171905.24925@cs.umn.edu> rantapaa@cs.umn.edu (Erik E. Rantapaa) writes:
}In article <7885@ncar.ucar.edu> melvin@cgdisis.cgd.ucar.edu () writes:
}>Here's my problem. ... I type
}>dvips -t landscape shiver
}[and printer eats the job]
}
}The documentation is wrong.  You have to use @landscape to get landscape mode.
}The same goes for the other options - letter, a4, legal.  I don't know if
}this is fixed in version 5.0.

Well, I don't know if there was a previous local patch here or what,
but 'dvips -t landscape' works just fine for most files.  Its just every
once in a while that something freezes the printer.  It does only
occur with landscape files, but I think the problem may be with the
postscript that dvips produces.  Unfortunately I'm not enough of a
guru to debug it...

	- Lee


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