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From: charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher)
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Subject: Re: Landscape mode and dvips
Keywords: dvips, landscape
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Date: 28 Jan 91 13:33:49 GMT
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In article <1991Jan26.161740.16610@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> finn@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Lee Samuel Finn) writes:
>I'm trying to print on the NeXT laser printer a tex document in
>landscape mode. The documentation for dvips indicates that the way to do this
>is
>
>% dvips -t landscape dvifilename
>
>However, when I do this my cube thinks for a while (as dvips does its
>stuff, near as I can see correctly) and then an alert panel from
>"Printing" springs up with the error message "Couldn't print file
>because of malformed PostScript Error: undefined; OffendingCommand:
>landscape".
>
>Has anyone any experience with this? I've checked NeXTAnswers, as well 
>as the online technical documentation with no success. I'd appreciate
>hearing from anyone who has had this problem and anyone who has found
>a way around it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sam Finn


Yes, there is a minor "bug" (depending on you view) in the PS file in
that the landscape mode is defined as '@landscape'. I notified Rokicki
and he gave me two working procedures--
Either give the -t option as @landscape as in

	 dvips -t @landscape dvifilename

Or (probably the way it is indended to work), put the line

	\special{landscape}

in your file. This is the documented method--see the dvips man page.


-Charlie