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From: jma7759@cec1.wustl.edu (James Michael Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Help! A Simple Question...
Keywords: postscript, rotate, scaleing
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.031537.22872@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 03:15:37 GMT
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Ok, so here's the story: I have a graphing package (PLOT2) that has
produced a Postscript file as output.  When I print the file, it
comes out in landscape mode and fills the length of the 11" paper.
I want to print the graph out in portrait mode and I want it to
be no wider than 6 1/2 inches.  My problem is that I do not read
Postscript and I am unsure of what I have to change in order to
get what I want!

I have been able to figure out a little bit of the language.  Listed
below is a shortened version of my file.  I know that if I change the
"90 rotate" line to "0 rotate" and the line that reads:
             "0 -8.5 72 mul translate"
can be changed to:
             "0 0 72 mul translate"
which will cause the figure to be printed in portrait mode; however,
its still to wide!  What else do I have to do?


============ Postscript file listing follows! =====================

%!
%%Title: stdin
%%Creator: f2ps
%%CreationDate: Tue Mar 19 18:43:26 1991
%%For: ja@wucec1 (Jim Anderson,,,)
%%Pages: 1
%%BoundingBox: 72 252 540 540
%%EndComments
/$F2psDict 32 dict def $F2psDict begin $F2psDict /mtrx matrix put
 end /$F2psBegin {$F2psDict begin /$F2psEnteredState save def} def /$F2psEnd {$F2psEnteredState restore end} def
%%EndProlog
$F2psBegin
1 setlinecap
 1 setlinejoin
90 rotate
 0 -8.5 72 mul translate
72 1000 div dup scale
10 setlinewidth
10 setlinewidth
2657 2165 moveto 2742 2165 lineto stroke
%% (rest of the figure is described here)
showpage
$F2psEnd

============ End of Postscript file listing =====================

Thanks in advance for any assistance!
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