Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!swatsun!swatsun!gessel From: gessel@masada.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Preview and Postscript Oddness Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 90 22:58:43 GMT References: <1990Dec19.181507.8063@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: news@cs.swarthmore.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pa. Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: songer@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu's message of 19 Dec 90 18:15:07 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: masada >When I use preview to print it, I get a bunch of extra pages >that I don't want. >Chris Preview takes any images which fill larger than the area of one page assuming about 1 -inch margins, and splits it. Preview does not send the postscript send to it to the printer, it actually gets the postscript through the view used to display it onscreen. Look at the code it sends out sometime, and you'll see what I mean. It's a nice feature when something is bigger than normal paper size, since it automatically splits it up for you, but otherwise it can be a pain. In fact, when programming, if you send a view a print postscript message, it will do a very similar thing. You have to be careful not to put exactly the same thing out to the printer as you do to the windowserver. Dan -- Daniel Mark Gessel Independent Software Consultant Internet: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu and Developer I do not represent Swarthmore College (thank God).