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From: ralph@lasso.UUCP.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Printing legal size pages on Apple LaserWriter
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Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 06:51:42 EDT
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Normally, both the LaserWriter and LaserWriter+ get their page size information
from the codes on the paper feed trays.  As such, if you send legal size (14")
text documents and you have the legal paper tray, it will work properly.
Unfortunately, packages, such as Transcript, *only* understand letter size
pages.  It suffices to intercept the PostScript document before it goes to
the printer and specify \legal, \letter, \note, \a4 , etc. in order to define
the page to be of the correct size.  For example, TeX allows one to create
legal sized documents.  Then the "\legal" option *has* to be specified to
dvi2ps in order that it comes out propely on the printer.

	Ralph P. Sobek

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