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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Enlarging LaserWriter frame buffer
Message-ID: <18062@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 1 Mar 90 14:42:59 GMT
References: <635958407.437@minster.york.ac.uk>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <635958407.437@minster.york.ac.uk>, john@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
> A member of my department wishes to print more closely
> to the edge of the paper than the largest page type
> set-up procedure permits them to. (This is an old LaserWriter
> with Revision 2 software and an A4 paper tray - explicit use
> of the `a4' procedure confirms that this is invoked implicitly,
> as expected).
> 
> There is, as might be expected, a white margin around the
> edge of the paper. Reading the PostScript `Red' book
> (the PostScript LRM published by Addison-Wesley) I note
> the existence of `framedevice' and `banddevice' procedures.
> Can anyone out there mail me an example of a program
> which calls these (supplying a suitable imaging procedure)
> to establish a page of a given size? Alternatively, is
> there a reference in which this is discussed? Just how
> close can you go to the edge of the paper without hitting
> a memory-size or mechanical limit?

Generaly, there is a .25 inch border around the paper
due to mechanical features of the printer.
Amanda has posted a nify goody to do that.  I have it somewhere
I also posted a way to find the
contents of these proceedures
/statusdict load {== ==} forall
cheer
Woody