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From: pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Landscape output from psroff
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.061514.12962@TIRS.oz.au>
Date: 7 Feb 91 06:15:14 GMT
References: <2562@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Organization: International Railroad Systems (Electronics)
Lines: 38

Thanks to those who replied to my original request. It seems that some
people have a different version of psroff to mine (written by Chris Lewis).
Other versions seem to be based around ditroff which I don't have. At
least one version has landscape support built-in. 

The following reply was particularly helpful:

From article <2562@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de>, by net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de
(Oliver Laumann):
> In article <1991Jan18.055212.16845@TIRS.oz.au> pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes:
>> Anybody know how to get landscape output to an Apple Laserwriter IINT from
>> psroff?
> 
> Yes.  In the PostScript prolog for psdit (psdit.pro), change the line
> reading
> 
>     /xi {0 72 11.7 mul translate 72 resolution div dup neg scale 0 0 moveto
> 
> into
> 
>     /xi {90 rotate 72 resolution div dup neg scale 0 0 moveto
> 
Although I don't have appear to have psdit.pro, the principle here is
sound, and I put the following lines in my postscript output before printing:
	800 0 translate
	90 rotate
This works nicely.

Without having tried it yet, I believe the appropriate place to put these
lines is in ps.lib on my system. A fairly simple mod to the psroff script
could select different ps.lib files based on a command line switch, say
-L.
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