Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!software.mitel.com!barker
From: barker@Software.Mitel.COM (John Barker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Metafiles on NeXT
Summary: change the scale
Keywords: scaling scale
Message-ID: <7047@barker>
Date: 21 Mar 91 16:32:03 GMT
References: <12782@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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In <12782@ucrmath.ucr.edu> John Duchowski writes:

>	I am running into problmes trying to print a "metafile" on a NeXT
>laser printer.  Parts of the file (ca. 500 K) are included below.  It is
>supposed to consist of four squares (a la some window frames) each of which
>has a wire mesh graph depicting wavefunctions of coupled harmonic oscillators.
>It comes from a book called Quantum Mechanics on Personal Computer.  According
>to the instructions in the book, the files arew set up to work with a printer
>using A4 paper which is what we are using (8.5 by 11).  However, all I get
>is an image about the size of a *very* small postage stamp located in the
>middle of a page.  To be sure, it is showing what it is supposed to show,
>but it's pretty nearly impossible to view without a fairly large magnifying
>glass.  Would anyone have any idea how I could fix this ?  Any hints and
>or comments would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks !

Two points: first, A4 is NOT 8.5 by 11 inches, although it's close. It's
actually around 8.27 inches by 11.69 inches. No big deal, but it could
affect some positions on the page, depending on how those are calculated.

Second, in the sample code which followed, there is the line:

.1 .1 scale

This is the line which affects the size of the image on the page.
First try simply commenting it out (%). If it's still not big enough,
replace the .1 values with 2, 3 or 4 (or more). What basically has
happened from the sounds of it is the output is one TENTH the size
it should be.

--john