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From: ajcd@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Angus Duggan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript printing small and mirrorimaged!!
Summary: You forgot the job terminator
Keywords: upside-down small image, dvips, EOF
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Date: 8 Dec 90 12:10:54 GMT
References: <7699@hub.ucsb.edu> <371@rusux1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
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In article <371@rusux1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, claus@suncvt13.verfahrenstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Claus Fleischer) writes:
> In article <7699@hub.ucsb.edu> raj@pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson) writes:
> >We have one postscript printer here ...
> 
> >                                  ... If someone prints a graphics image
> >from a DOS program named "CorelDraw" to the printer and then someone sends
> >a normal text file (which gets converted to postscript via the transcript
> >program "pstext", but I've used "enscript" also with the same results), the
> >CorelDraw image comes out just fine but the text file gets printed in a
> >little tiny font and in mirror image fashion!
> >
> 
> We have the same problem on our installation after sending PS-output
> from LaTeX (converted with dvips 4.2) to the laser printer. The behavior
> Richard described occures exactly for the first page of the next
> print job. 
> 
What is happening is that you are sending two jobs without an end of job
terminator (\004) between them. Dvips alters the current transformation matrix
to make it similar to DVI file coordinates (origin top-left,
resolution-dependent scaling on axes); this transformation is happening twice
for the second job. The solution is:

1) If you are using dvips 5.4 (and some earlier versions, I can't remember
   when this option was added), add the -F option to the command line. If you
   don't have dvips 5.4, upgrade to it, because it's a whole lot better.

2) If you aren't using dvips, create a file with a single EOF (\004) in it,
   and add it on to anything you send to the printer.

3) Send your second job after the job timeout has expired :-)

A.
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