Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: Landscape page orientation
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.194437.12060@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc.
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 19:44:37 GMT
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woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) claims that
> The generic way to do landscape is
> 612 0 translate 90 rotate. 

This is not in the least generic!  Anyone who, like me, has spent years using
North American software in England and Europe knows that it's often hard to
get support for A4 and A3 paper... wiring in the size of the page in this
way makes it very hard to change.  Until recently I'd never _seen_ a
printer that could print on anything as _weird_ as 8.5 x 11 inch paper, the
`standard' American size.

You could do
/PaperWidth 72 8.5 mul cvi def % width of a page in PostScript points

PaperWidth 0 translate 90 rotate

though, and that's much better.

Lee

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