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From: fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott E. Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: How do I determine a printer's imaging area?
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.174934.5816@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Feb 91 17:49:34 GMT
Reply-To: fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott E. Townsend)
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Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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I have a question, somewhat similar to one which I've seen recently in this
group.  I want to know the imaging area of whatever printer my code gets
executed on.  The reason is that I have a viewgraph package running on a
Silicon Graphics Iris in which I want the ability to save drawings in
Postscript format.  Through some trial and error I have code which takes
a full Iris screen and prints it on a 'full' 8.5"x11" page on Apple & Sparc
printers.  Attempting this on a QMS color printer caused problems due to
the QMS printer's smaller imaging area.

So, given an Iris imaging space of (say) 1280x1024, how can I portably
determine the correct transform to fill an arbitrary printer's page.
(or at least a large class of printers) ?

Any suggestions (including pointers to the correct manual) would be
appreciated.  I'm just beginning to learn Postscript, so please be patient
and basic with your explanations.  Thanks.

Scott

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