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From: rbv@cypress.UUCP (Roger Vanderveen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: dvips landscape problem
Message-ID: <612@cypress.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 90 16:25:46 GMT
References: <1990Nov24.061123.10538@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <4391@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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In article <4391@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>I have a problem with landscape printing. I tried to
>do the testpage.tex that comes with LaTeX. It is supposed to generate a
>rectangular frame with some rulers. When I print it in landscape
>mode the vertical lines (i.e those that are parallel to the short side of
>the paper) of the frame disappear... In
>normal mode they come out as they should.

I don't believe it's a Postscript problem, but rather a print engine problem.
I've seen printers skip lines that are perpendicular to the paper motion if
they are on a certain grid.  You might try shifting the grid slightly or making
the lines wider.

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