pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) (01/18/91)
Anybody know how to get landscape output to an Apple Laserwriter IINT from psroff? _______________________________________________________________________ Peter Bartel Senior Software Engineer International Phone: +61-8-232-1740 Railroad Faxstream: +61-8-232-2274 Systems E-mail: pete@TIRS.oz.au (Electronics) Snail: 209-217 Wakefield St, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (01/26/91)
In article <1991Jan18.055212.16845@TIRS.oz.au> pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes: >Anybody know how to get landscape output to an Apple Laserwriter IINT from >psroff? Run it thru psnup. -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Internet: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: uunet!mitel!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386) Psroff enquiries: psroff-request@eci386, current patchlevel is *7*.
pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) (02/01/91)
From article <1223@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>, by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis): > In article <1991Jan18.055212.16845@TIRS.oz.au> pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes: >>Anybody know how to get landscape output to an Apple Laserwriter IINT from >>psroff? > > Run it thru psnup. What's psnup when its at home? _______________________________________________________________________ Peter Bartel Senior Software Engineer International Phone: +61-8-232-1740 Railroad Faxstream: +61-8-232-2274 Systems E-mail: pete@TIRS.oz.au (Electronics) Snail: 209-217 Wakefield St, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (02/04/91)
In article <1991Jan31.233240.29162@TIRS.oz.au> pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes: >From article <1223@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>, by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca >(Chris Lewis): >> In article <1991Jan18.055212.16845@TIRS.oz.au> pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes: >>>Anybody know how to get landscape output to an Apple Laserwriter IINT from >>>psroff? >> Run it thru psnup. >What's psnup when its at home? A Postscript program written by Ned Batchelder and posted quite some time ago to comp.sources.misc. Roy Smith at Phri mentioned it quite recently. I'm trying to get in contact with Ned about reposting it with a frontend to make it easier to use. If people have an immediate need for it, send me mail and I'll send you what I've got as a beta test - not for further redistribution. If I don't hear back from Ned soon, I guess I'll go ahead and post it anyways (contacting him is purely a courtesy because he hasn't restricted redistribution but I wanted to see if he had a newer version). -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Internet: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: uunet!mitel!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386) Psroff enquiries: psroff-request@eci386, current patchlevel is *7*.
pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) (02/07/91)
Thanks to those who replied to my original request. It seems that some people have a different version of psroff to mine (written by Chris Lewis). Other versions seem to be based around ditroff which I don't have. At least one version has landscape support built-in. The following reply was particularly helpful: From article <2562@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de>, by net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann): > In article <1991Jan18.055212.16845@TIRS.oz.au> pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes: >> Anybody know how to get landscape output to an Apple Laserwriter IINT from >> psroff? > > Yes. In the PostScript prolog for psdit (psdit.pro), change the line > reading > > /xi {0 72 11.7 mul translate 72 resolution div dup neg scale 0 0 moveto > > into > > /xi {90 rotate 72 resolution div dup neg scale 0 0 moveto > Although I don't have appear to have psdit.pro, the principle here is sound, and I put the following lines in my postscript output before printing: 800 0 translate 90 rotate This works nicely. Without having tried it yet, I believe the appropriate place to put these lines is in ps.lib on my system. A fairly simple mod to the psroff script could select different ps.lib files based on a command line switch, say -L. _______________________________________________________________________ Peter Bartel Senior Software Engineer International Phone: +61-8-232-1740 Railroad Faxstream: +61-8-232-2274 Systems E-mail: pete@TIRS.oz.au (Electronics) Snail: 209-217 Wakefield St, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (02/13/91)
In article <1991Feb7.061514.12962@TIRS.oz.au> pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel) writes: >Thanks to those who replied to my original request. It seems that some >people have a different version of psroff to mine (written by Chris Lewis). Sorry for the confusion - Adobe transcript also has a "psroff". (I didn't know that at the time, nor was "psroff" my idea anyways...) >Although I don't have appear to have psdit.pro, the principle here is >sound, and I put the following lines in my postscript output before printing: > 800 0 translate > 90 rotate >This works nicely. Another approach is this: psroff -P'P800 0 translate 90 rotate' >Without having tried it yet, I believe the appropriate place to put these >lines is in ps.lib on my system. Immediately before the "%%EndProlog" (very end of the file) if you decide to go that route. (which is where the "-PP" puts it). You can also configure in the psrofflib to have two different psroff "-T" options to select one ps.lib or the other. -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Internet: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: uunet!mitel!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis; Ferret Mailing List: (ferret-request@eci386); Psroff (not Adobe Transcript) enquiries: psroff-request@eci386, current patchlevel is *7*.