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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: The trouble with pagebreaks...
Message-ID: <3027@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 88 02:30:07 GMT
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Keywords: Mac, PostScript, pagebreaks

In article <1099@nugipsy.UUCP> tcianflo@nugipsy.UUCP (Tom Cianflone) writes:
>the printer can do.  Our printer (DataProducts 2665) has two paper
>trays and can handle up to 11x17 (B-size) sheets in the larger
>paper tray.
>
>for these larger drawings. (The Apple LaserWriter handles only
>8-1/2x14 pages, although you can draw a MacDraw drawing much
>than that.)
>To accommodate the LaserWriter, however, MacDraw saves oversize
>drawings in page-size chunks.  When I run these drawings off the
>DP2665 printer, I can indeed get the paper tray to switch, but the
>dwg still comes out in as many pages as it takes to print the
>whole image on the Apple Laserwriter.

This is rather simple to answer, from the Mac end of things. MacDraw
remembers the page size that it gets from the LaserWriter driver. If
none is specified, it will use 8.5x11 pages. If you select a different
size/shape, say landscape, you will notice that MacDraw displays the
pages as landscape. The new LaserWriter Driver, version 5.2, coming
within a month or so, in the System Software 6.0 release, includes
a page size selection of "tabloid", which is 11x17. This should
alleviate all your problems. You need the new Laser Prep dictionary
to output this way, and I do not know enough about PostScript to help
you temporarily do this yourself.

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