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From: ONM29@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Frank Wuebbeling)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Using OpenLook for Postscript Output
Message-ID: <91024.094107ONM29@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Date: 24 Jan 91 09:56:14 GMT
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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany

Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
Date: Thursday, 24 Jan 1991 09:30:03 MEZ
From: Frank Wuebbeling <ONM29@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Message-ID: <91024.093003ONM29@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Using OpenLook for Postscript-output

We need a tool for Postscript Draft output on a dot-matrix printer.
Using PD programs like GHOSTSCRIPT produced no satisfying results.
So we would like to create a postscript image using NEWS, and then
dump it to a file in some known format (like writecanvas does it).
However, the screen size seems to be a limit on the size of a canvas,
so we never succeeded in writing files much larger that the screen.

Nevertheless, PAGEVIEW obviously CAN create images that are much larger
than the screen (using the 300DPI option, for example). Is it possible
to dump that very image to a file, overriding the limits imposed by
window- or screen-borders? Or is there a demo for creating large,
pseudo-canvases that never actually get displayed, but dumped to a file?

sources or hints welcome.

Thanks,

Frank Wuebbeling
Institut fuer numerische und angewandte Mathematik
Einsteinstrasse 62
D-4400 Muenster
Deutschland