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From: alex@eneevax.UUCP (James Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Need help rotating address label; big top & left margins
Keywords: rotate 90 degrees, big margins
Message-ID: <1654@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 88 16:33:09 GMT
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Reply-To: alex@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (James Alexander)
Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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>2.  I suspect this problem may be related to the way dvi2ps inverts
>the dvi grid to conform with postscript.  The problem is that no
>matter what spacing commands I put at the top of the page, the
>laserprinter always leaves approx. 1.5 inches of space at the top of
>the page.  What I ended up doing to get around this was to print a
>*tiny* (height 1sp width 1sp depth 0sp) dot in the upper-left-hand
>corner of the page, after which vertical spacing works the way I
>expect it to.  There must be a better way!
Sorry.  I tried a half dozen way to e-mail this, but it wouldn't go 
through.

Your problem is not with postscript, but rather with TeX.  As the
TeXbook explains, TeX discards any spacing commands before something is
printed on a page.  To get around it, you trick TeX like you have done
or by an empty \line, or even { }, before your spacing commands.  Maybe
even \noindent will work (you have to force TeX out of vertical mode).

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