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From: hwt@bwdlh490.bnr.ca
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Need help wiNeed Help With PostScript printer (landscape default)
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Date: 20 Jul 90 21:41:37 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.135028.29370@bnrgate.bnr.ca> <2829@elrond.CalComp.COM> <617@vidiot.UUCP>
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In article <617@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
><to default it to printing LANDSCAPE.  The files sent to it are always
>Sorry, it doesn't work that way.  Landscape is a description to indicate to
>humans that the output is rotated in such a way that the paper looks like
>it is turned on its side.
>
>So, for Landscape operation, you have to get your text/data processing
>program to do it for you.

He's right.  But if you really insist for some odd reason, you could work out
a sequence like:

8.5 72 mul 0 translate
90 rotate
8.5 11 div dup scale
/initmatrix {} def

and force everything to be scaled to fit landscape - but I don't recommend it
and you'd have to power cycle to get your printer sane again.

What makes landscape so attractive, anyway?
Or do you have some program that assumes it's talking to a line printer, and
some other program that only translates to landscape PostScript? if so,
prepend the first three fo those lines to each such file.

Disclaimer: I didn't test that code.  And I know that you shouldn't redefine
system operators.  Or assume North American paper sizes.

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