dfh@ecsvax.UUCP (11/25/87)
I'm doing some work for a company that has what appears to be a nice laser printer. It's a Xerox 2700 II and spits out pages quite fast. It's got a default font that prints in landscape mode, and the users manual mentions that this is an installation setting (its preference for landscape over portrait mode and the font type). I'm trying to figure out how to change to portrait mode under software control, still using whatever default fonts are available. I see no indication in the manual on how to do this and it seems to have every other option except this. The manual was written in 1983, so I'm not sure if this thing is even supported any more. Help? Does anyone have any experience with the 2700 II? Is there a troff filter a la transcript or dev/ps for this beast or am I asking too much? -- Fortune for the day: "Beware of no pr}Blems in your diks subysstem" David Hinnant UUCP: ...mcnc!ecsvax!dfh SCI Systems, Inc. (919) 549-8334
phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (11/30/87)
In article <4214@ecsvax.UUCP> dfh@ecsvax.UUCP (David Hinnant) writes: >It's a Xerox 2700 II and spits out pages quite fast. It's been so long.........but I'll try to remember. >It's got a default font that prints in landscape mode, and the users >manual mentions that this is an installation setting (its preference >for landscape over portrait mode and the font type). I'm trying to >figure out how to change to portrait mode under software control, still >using whatever default fonts are available. In the manual I have, this is explained in section 3.11.3.12, "Page Orientation". Basically, the page orientation (landscape vs. portrait) is determined by the first font *used* on the page. A 2700 "font" (using the term loosely) is either landscape or portrait, but not both. This means you have to have two separate fonts even if their only difference is the orientation they will be used in. Also, if after using a font of one orientation, the document switches to and uses a font of the other orientation, the 2700 will start a new page. It only does one orientation per page. So to answer your question, you have to switch to a portrait mode font. This of course means that you have to have a portrait mode font..... If there is a ROM-resident one in the machine, use that. The default font is XCP14-L, right? Does Xerox make a font called XCP14-P? If it does, it will be the portrait mode equivalent of XCP14-L. >Is there a troff >filter a la transcript or dev/ps for this beast or am I asking too much? There is such a beast, called xroff, put out by Image Network, I think? William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>