Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!iscuva!jimc
From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: The trouble with pagebreaks...
Message-ID: <1408@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 88 18:24:30 GMT
References: <1099@nugipsy.UUCP>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
Lines: 34
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
>...
>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.
>
>So, the question is, Is it possible to edit out the page breaks in
>the Mac-generated PostScript code while keeping the rest of the

The best solution is to edit the appropriate PREC resouces in the Mac's
printer driver so the Mac knows the real size of the printer's page
(the same way it can be told about A4 paper or US Legal).  Then MacDraw
et.  al.  will automatically be able to print on B paper.  This is easy
to do with the right copy of ResEdit (it needs a special TMPL resouce
to make it easy), but you can do it in hex if you know what you are
doing.  I have not personally done this, but it has been done by
someone.  (my memory's like a sieve!)  I think Apple even documented
this in a Tech Note.

Otherwise you'll really have to fool around with the Postscript and do
'paste-up' that way.  Rather inelegant I should think.

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