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From: crtb@nih-csl.UUCP (chuck bacon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: "Large" page printing
Summary: Print `large' pages without repeatedly loading the image
Message-ID: <1007@nih-csl.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 19:09:33 GMT
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Organization: NIH-CSL, Bethesda, MD
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Here's a way to print an image which is too big for the paper.
It may fail, if `Image' is too huge for the printer's VM.

In this example, `Image' has a coordinate range of 2"<X<14", and 2"<Y<19",
yielding nice 2" margins all around, with a 1" overlap.  This image will
be distributed among four 8.5" x 11" sheets.
	0.0 10.0 inch 19 inch {		% Y range, 1" overlap
	  0.0  7.5 inch 14 inch {	% X range, 1" overlap
	    neg
	    1 index neg
	    gsave
	    translate Image showpage
	    grestore
	   } for
	  pop
	 } for
% No `showpage' at the end, because it's in the middle!
Chuck Bacon, crtb@alw.nih.gov
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