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From: jsa@tut.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Horizontal format with pic or Postscript?
Message-ID: <1459@korppi.tut.fi>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 03:55:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: korppi.1459
Posted: Thu Jun 11 03:55:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 20:46:11 EDT
References: <1642@pbhye.UUCP>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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in article <1642@pbhye.UUCP>, josh@pbhye.UUCP (Joshua Stein) says:
> Xref: tut comp.graphics:533 comp.unix.wizards:1834
> 
>screen becomes compressed when printed on a laser printer. The diagram is wide
> and I am at a loss as to how to tell either pic (if this possible) or
>Postscript(the two available graphics packages) how to rotate the diagram and 
> print it horizontally (actually the laser printer would take care of the
> printing if I could just get the generated bit map correct).
> 

I had a kind a similar problem when trying to get large tables (run through
tbl and then ditroff ) to landscape -format to our APPLE (postscript)
laserwriter.

What I did was to take ditroff's postscript output to a file and then
modify the postscript file to be printed horizontally.

Here's the script and the lines to be added and the manual page.

--------------- /usr/local/2land ----------------------
#! /bin/sh
for i
do
  cp $i $i~
  ed $i <<'LOPPU' >/dev/null 2>&1
  /initmatrix/2
  . r /usr/local/.2land.rot
  w
  q
LOPPU
done
--------------- /usr/local/.2land.rot -------------------
0 11.5 72 mul translate
270 rotate
--------------- /usr/man/manl/2land.l -------------------
.TH 2LAND 1L 6/3/87
.SH NAME
2land, convert postscript -files to landscape format for laser writer.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IR 2land
file [file...]

.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.IR 2land
program converts postscript files to landscape format for APPLE laser writer.
.PP
This program is mostly useful is you wish to print out tables which
require rather a wide paper. The reason to make this program was
that there was absolutely 
.IR no
way to print a file in landscape format after having run it through
.IR ditroff (1).
.PP
What the program actually does is that it finds the place in a
postscript file immediately after first 2 initmatrix -commands,
which is the way ditroff initializes the scaling. Then using
.IR ed (1)
it puts there commands to relocate the place of the origin
and to rotate the printing direction by 270 degrees.
.PP
This program actually modifies your postscript file, but it does
leave you the original one as well.
The name of the original file is extended like emacs does
(adding a '~' to the end of the name).
.PP
Remember, that in landscape -format page length is about 6.5 inches
and line length is about 11.5 inches. DO NOT FORGET TO TELL THAT
TO DITROFF !!

.SH "AUTHORS"
jsa@tut.fi

.SH FILES
.IR/usr/local/2land
- the command itself
.br
.IR /usr/local/.2land.rot
- this has the information to be added

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR lwf (1)
- which handles normal text perfectly.

.SH BUGS
This is
.IR NOT
a filter, because sed can't cope with multiple line searches.
-----------------------------------

I hope this is of some help.
-- 
          Jari Salo              Tampere University of Technology 
UUCP:     jsa@tut.UUCP           Computer Systems Laboratory
Internet: jsa@tut.fi             PO box 527
Tel:      358-(9)31-162590       SF-33101 Tampere, Finland