Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: cut marks
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.050259.8981@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 05:02:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.175640.2385@bradley.bradley.edu>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc, Ottawa, Canada

In article <1991Mar20.175640.2385@bradley.bradley.edu> brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:
|Configuration:
|	Linotype typesetter
|	ditroff with tpscript or dpost
|	Sun OS 4.1.1
|	Printing a catalog - page layout 7inches wide, 9 inches long

|Problem:

|	1 - we only get cut marks at top of page (execpt for last page we
|	    get both top and bottom).

|	2 - how do we get rid of the blank paper (the lino thinks we are
|	    are using 8.5x11 paper so we have 2inches of unsed paper.

Does the "DESC" file have the pagelength parameter right?  You'll want
to set it to 9 inches.  In order to not interfere with other uses of
ditroff, you'll probably want to copy the /usr/lib/font/dev<xxx> ASCII
width tables to /usr/lib/font/dev<yyy>, adjust pagelength, and recompile
the widths with makedev.  (or PD mkfont if your ditroff didn't come with
makedev).  This should solve (2), and make (1) irrelevant.
-- 
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