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From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printing long (legal) pages
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Date: 8 Mar 91 06:00:49 GMT
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In article <1991Mar8.024329.494@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)  
writes:
> 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?

In Mail.app or any other that has a Page Layout menu you can specify the
paper size (quite a few paper size formats,including legal).  This then
prepends to all your print jobs the right preamble (no need to go
and edit by hand)...  Below is the header from Mail.app postscript
file (used the save button in the print panel)...

%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Title: Active.mbox
%%Creator: Mail
%%CreationDate: Fri Mar  8 00:49:27 1991
%%For: lacsap
%%DocumentFonts: (atend)
%%Pages: (atend) 1
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%DocumentPaperSizes: Legal
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%EndComments

Note that Page layout only affects printing from that particular application.
How the printer engine deals with this, I do not know (dont have
legal size paper!)...

If the app does not support page layout, then you will probably need
to edit it by hand!

pasc

Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
Media Laboratory, E15-351, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311
email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)