earle@jplopto.uucp (Greg Earle) (10/21/87)
The LaTeX manual says that the responsibility for handling magnification lies in the DVI -> yourprinterhere driver. Fair enough. I have Stephan Bechtolsheim's `dvipr' shell script to print DVI files, and it can take an X-Y offset as two options. It uses his most recent dvi2ps, which can handle the built-in PostScript fonts. If one prints the sample `letter.tex' file that comes with the LaTeX distribution, everything comes out fine, and it looks like it is formatted for a 6.5 x 9 page. If one invokes the post-processor with the `magstep' option (for \magstep1, for example), it appears the upper left origin of the page stays the same or pretty close (seems reasonable to me) to its original point; thus at magstep1 the print creeps off the page to the bottom and to the right. Obviously, I'd like to be able to give it an X-Y offset to shove the origin to the left and up, so the doc will stay on the page. I was wondering if anyone had developed any canonical algorithms for doing this (applicable to more than one \magstep, assuming the original font size was sufficiently small enough for it to fit). Thanx ... Greg Earle earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV S(*CENSORED*)t earle%jplopto@jpl-elroy.ARPA [aka:] Rockwell International earle%jplopto@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV Seal Beach, CA ...!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!jplopto!earle