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From: edwards@bgsuvax.UUCP (Ken Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Larger print area
Summary: Fiddling with Laserprep
Message-ID: <4113@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 23:39:37 GMT
References: <1263@majestix.ida.liu.se>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Lines: 46

In article <1263@majestix.ida.liu.se>, andwi@majestix.ida.liu.se (Andreas Wickberg) writes:
> The Apple print-manager gives the user an opportunity to increase the
> printable area on the page. In Sweden the standard LaserWriter IINT
> has about 1 cm margins that can be reduced to a few mm's with this
> option on. I've tried to see in the Laser Prep how they do this, but
> found it too stuffed away.

Find the line below in the LaserPrep preamble.

pse T T 0 0 761 582 100 72 72 1 F F T F T T psu od psb
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  | | | | | | | |
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  | | | | | | | fNote
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  | | | | | | fBitstretch
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  | | | | | scaleby96
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  | | | | yflip
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  | | | xflip
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  | | invertflag
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  | pages
    | | | |  |   |   |   |  ybits per inch
    | | | |  |   |   |   xbits per inch
    | | | |  |   |   scale * 100 ?
    | | | |  |   |
    | | | |  |   x width ---------- these are the two you want to fiddle with
    | | | |  y height -------^
    | | | xtrans
    | | ytrans
    | portrait mode
    ???

By changing the flags and parameters in the line above you can accomplish
all the same OPTIONS which the OPTIONS dialog box gives you.

Hope that's of some help. The two items marked with question marks I'm
not real sure of.

Disclaimer: My name is Ken Jenkins and I am here as a guest of Bruce Edwards
            to whom this account belongs. Although he may be interested or even
            amused by my ramblings, he should not be held accountable for them 
            in any way.  
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