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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How can I offset output from dvips
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Date: 27 Nov 90 00:33:56 GMT
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>>> I was rather worried that it didn't seem possible with dvips to specify
>>> the paper size very precisely: just a4, letter, etc.

>>Do you have a printer that cuts the paper down to size automatically for you,
>>and only feeds tiny sheets?  Or what?  I don't understand what you mean.

>But it would be simpler if I could just tell the Linotronic to start a new
>page after a certain length, i.e., tell it my page width.

How does the Linotronic know the size to advance?  Does it use the global
document bounding box comment?  I may provide a special for setting that
(among other things, so figures from dvips can be included as graphics.)
Could you get me that information?  (The choices as I see them are that it
either advances it a fixed amount each page, or advances it based on the
bounding box, or advances it based on some parameter entered by hand.)

-tom