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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printing long (legal) pages
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.024329.494@shaman.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 02:43:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.135456.13679@wam.umd.edu>
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In article <1991Mar7.135456.13679@wam.umd.edu> charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) writes:
>
>I am trying to print pages on legal size paper using a manual feed-
>how do I tell the printer that the page length so that the bottom
>isn't cut off?
>

	If you are using emacs, or any other text editor, to create the
PostScript file, then you should have this in your header:

======== PostScript Header ========
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%DocumentFonts: (atend)
%%Pages: 1 1
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%DocumentPaperSizes: Legal
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%EndComments
========= End Header =============

	I got this by going into WriteNow, opening a new document, 
specifying Legal size paper, and Print/Saving the PostScript.
	Note: Not all postscript printers support legal size paper because
of memory/space requirements. I think the NeXT Laser Printer has this 
restriction too (it could be the laser engine inside that confines
the paper size). On page 319 of the 2.0 User Reference, it only specifies
A4 and letter size.
	If your printer does support legal size paper and you want it
to be able through the Printer Options, then have a look in the directory
	/usr/lib/NextPrinter/pdf

	These files specify the characteristics of different printers
including page length. You might want to change or make your own file
for your own printer, with the legal paper size option.

	- Jiro Nakamura
	jiro@shaman.com
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