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From: greenber@swatsun (Peter Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Landscape mode in troff ?
Message-ID: <1094@carthage.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 05:21:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: carthage.1094
Posted: Mon Apr 27 05:21:51 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 03:02:29 EDT
References: <99600001@labsms.UUCP>
Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Lines: 27
Summary: Cludge to Print In Landscape Mode -- Ugly but Functional

In article <99600001@labsms.UUCP>, lmm@labsms.UUCP writes:
> 
> I'm using Adobe's Transcript package on a UNIX machine connected
> to an Apple Laserwriter.  I'm using troff and I want to orient the
> text 90 degrees from normal - - (landscape mode rather than portrait)
> I can tell troff that I have a line length of 11i and page length of
> 8.5i, but how do you tell psroff or psdit or whatever to print it out
> in landscape mode?
> 
Off the cuff cludge suggestion: get the PostScript output in a file (-t to
ptroff or psroff (or RTFM)). Then put this line at the top, just after
the first line:

612 0 translate 90 rotate

This will probably do it.  It works for us. If you are doing this a lot you
can put it in the prologue file, which is something like /usr/local/lib/lw/-
ditroff.pro. Or whatever.

Peter              


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