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From: stevenz@carr.UUCP (Steven Zepp)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Need help rotating address label; big top & left margins
Keywords: rotate 90 degrees, big margins
Message-ID: <627@carr.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 22:45:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: carr.627
Reply-To: stevenz@carr.UUCP (Steven Zepp)
Organization: York U. Writing Center
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The Learning Disabilities Programme at York University owns a QMS
810ps laserprinter (running postscript).  As a typesetter we use
(plain)TeX and "translate" the dvi output with dvi2ps.  I'm having two
problems:

1.  We've been using the letter format found in the _TeXBook_ quite
successfully for a while now, and like the results.  The problem is
that printing the address labels on plain paper to be later
photocopied onto address labels seems to be a waste of effort, toner,
etc.  Handwriting the address for a typeset-and-laserprinted letter
looks stupid.  What I'd like to do is have the printer print the
address label right on the envelope, but of course York's standard
envelopes are too wide for the manual feed slot.  Can someone please
tell me how to rotate the text (address label) 90 degrees so that the
short side of the envelope can enter the printer first?

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!

Please email any advice/answers/etc. to the address listed below.  If
feedback warrants, I'll post a summary.

Thank you very much in advance.

			Steven
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Steven Zepp                             (416) 736-5376
Computer-Assisted Writing Centre
530 Scott Library, York University	stevenz@writer.UUCP
4700 Keele Street			stevenz@writer.yorku.ca
Downsview, Ontario, M3J 1P3   ...!{utzoo, mnetor, utgpu}!yunexus!writer!stevenz