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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Re: making GS write to big X window
Keywords: ghostscript X_Windows_11_R3 Suns
Message-ID: <145@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 89 03:42:16 GMT
References: <552@kl-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <552@kl-cs.UUCP> gerry@cs.keele.ac.uk (Gerry Pratt) writes:

|With ghostscript 1.2, I altered the line in gdevx.c which read
|
|	640, 350,               /* x and y extent */
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|to
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|	700, 900,               /* x and y extent */
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|and on a Sun 3/50 (SunOS 3.5) running the X11R3 server it now
|opens a 700x900 window OK - but the postscript still draws in a
|640x350 area in the top left hand corner.
|
|Could someone hazard a guess at why this is?

You might want to look at device.height and device.width in ghost.ps,
which ghostscript reads at startup.  My copy says 792 by 612 assuming
my calculator is working.

I changed mine (not X-windows, but it should work everywhere) so
that everything gets its idea of the size from ghost.ps.  That way
everything is consistant, and you can change the size by editing
ghost.ps (seconds) rather than recompiling (grind, grind).  (I'm in
the process of sending fixes/enhancements to Peter so that he can
include then in a future release if he likes them.)

BTW, have you been getting my mail, Peter?  I'm a bit confused about
the arguments to <device>_draw_line().  It appears that x0, y0, and x1
are included, but y1 is excluded.  This seems a bit unsymetrical to me.
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