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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Making Multipage Posters
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Date: 18 Sep 90 17:39:20 GMT
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In article <4471@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>
>Is there a way to take a PostScript drawing, and enlarge it so instead
>of printing on one page, it prints on several?

I just did this last week!  It prints the same thing three times
in a series of pages.  After each page the coordinate system is shifted
so that more of the display appears.  You will have to futz around with
it to get the overlaps ok, but cutting and joining is easy.  You could
add loops to cover a rectangular area.  If you generalize this, please
post for everybody!

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erasepage

90 rotate
2 2 scale

/shift { % shift to next pannel
-370 0 translate
% 0 -50 translate % slip down (only for NEWS testing)
 } def

/dopage {
erasepage
gsave
  /Helvetica-Bold findfont 100 scalefont setfont
  gsave
    10 -200 translate
    0 0 moveto
    1 2.1 scale
    (SEQUENCE LOGOS:) show
  grestore

  /Helvetica-Bold findfont 50 scalefont setfont
  gsave
    10 -270 translate 0 0 moveto
    (A New Way to Display Consensus Sequences) show
  grestore

  showpage
grestore
shift
} def

dopage
dopage
dopage
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  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov