rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock) (12/19/90)
I have a problem with a Linotronic machine the someone may be able to help me with. (Its an L200 I think. Does that make sense?) I am trying to send some postscript to the device which uses the entire width of the film but when my drawing comes back it is cropped at 8.5 x 11 inches! I suspect that the guy who runs this sends a header file to the machine before my file is sent! Does anyone know the "statusdict" variables that need to be reset to be able to get the full 12 inches width and corresponding height! What commands might restore the device to a known default state, and what is that default state?, (landscape or portrate / and cliparea)? -- Michael Katzmann Please email to this address | Broadcast Sports Technology | 2135 Espey Ct. #4 \|/ Crofton MD 21114-2442 (301) 721-5151 ...uunet!opel!vk2bea!michael
mad@media01.UUCP (Martin Admiraal) (12/19/90)
In article <1990Dec18.192857.4050@wam.umd.edu> rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock) writes: >I have a problem with a Linotronic machine the someone may be able to >help me with. (Its an L200 I think. Does that make sense?) >I am trying to send some postscript to the device which uses the entire >width of the film but when my drawing comes back it is cropped at >8.5 x 11 inches! I suspect that the guy who runs this sends a header >file to the machine before my file is sent! >Does anyone know the "statusdict" variables that need to be reset to >be able to get the full 12 inches width and corresponding height! >What commands might restore the device to a known default state, and >what is that default state?, (landscape or portrate / and cliparea)? The default state is defined throug the defaultpageparams. These can be read in the statusdict and gives you the width, height, margin and orientation. To change these values for your own purposes you can use the statusdict- command setpageparams. The syntax is: width height margin orientation setpageparams. These changes are documentated in the "Supplement for the Liontronic imagesetter version 49.3" from Adobe Systems inc. My experiance with the Linotronic RIP3 and L500 is that it works good. The same goes for the Autologic PIP 2. > > >-- >Michael Katzmann Please email to this address | >Broadcast Sports Technology | >2135 Espey Ct. #4 \|/ >Crofton MD 21114-2442 (301) 721-5151 ...uunet!opel!vk2bea!michael Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Linotronic "statusdict" Summary: Expires: References: <1990Dec18.192857.4050@wam.umd.edu> Sender: Reply-To: mad@media01.UUCP (Martin Admiraal) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Mediasystemen, Netherlands Keywords: -- +--------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | Martin Admiraal | EMAIL mad@media01.uucp | | | Mediasystemen B.V. | ..!hp4nl!media01!mad | You don't have to | | PO Box 4932 | | be MAD to work here | | 2003 EX HAARLEM | Phone +31 23 319075 | | | The Netherlands | Fax +31 23 315210 | but for me it helps | +--------------------+------------------------+----------------------+