cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (09/18/90)
Is there a way to take a PostScript drawing, and enlarge it so instead
of printing on one page, it prints on several? Obviously, the margin
areas can't be printed, but if you had a way to scale up a PostScript
drawing so that the upper left quadrant went on page 1, upper right
quadrant on page 2, lower left on page 3, lower right on page 4, it
would be possible to build (with a little tape and carefully
overlapping) a 17" x 22" poster.
I can picture the general mechanism -- use of the translate and
scale operators to enlarge and move the four parts of the described
page, but I suspect that someone has already done this trick in a
general way that works with any well-behaved PostScript drawing.
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You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) (09/19/90)
In article <4471@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: > >Is there a way to take a PostScript drawing, and enlarge it so instead >of printing on one page, it prints on several? I just did this last week! It prints the same thing three times in a series of pages. After each page the coordinate system is shifted so that more of the display appears. You will have to futz around with it to get the overlaps ok, but cutting and joining is easy. You could add loops to cover a rectangular area. If you generalize this, please post for everybody! - snip here - snip here - snip here - snip here - snip here - snip here erasepage 90 rotate 2 2 scale /shift { % shift to next pannel -370 0 translate % 0 -50 translate % slip down (only for NEWS testing) } def /dopage { erasepage gsave /Helvetica-Bold findfont 100 scalefont setfont gsave 10 -200 translate 0 0 moveto 1 2.1 scale (SEQUENCE LOGOS:) show grestore /Helvetica-Bold findfont 50 scalefont setfont gsave 10 -270 translate 0 0 moveto (A New Way to Display Consensus Sequences) show grestore showpage grestore shift } def dopage dopage dopage - snip here - snip here - snip here - snip here - snip here - snip here Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov
jmd@franklin.ee.umr.edu (Jim Dumser) (09/19/90)
In article <4471@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: > >Is there a way to take a PostScript drawing, and enlarge it so instead >of printing on one page, it prints on several? The blue book (_Tutorial and Cookbook_) has a routine called printposter (pp 183 - 185). It assumes you have a "full scale" drawing, but if you already have a drawing, you could easily fake that with a scale (3 3 scale will make a single page drawing into a 3x3 page drawing). Jim +-------------------------------------------------------+ | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, | | but fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 | |-------------------------------------------------------| | Internet: jmd@ee.umr.edu | M S - D O S . . . | | UUCP: ...uunet!umree!jmd | Just say "NO!" | +-------------------------------------------------------+ Here's the code: ---- cut here ---- %! /printposter { /rows exch def /columns exch def /bigpictureproc exch def newpath leftmargin botmargin moveto 0 pageheight rlineto pagewidth 0 rlineto 0 pageheight neg rlineto closepath clip leftmargin botmargin translate 0 1 rows 1 sub { /rowcount exch def 0 1 columns 1 sub { /colcount exch def gsave pagewidth colcount mul neg pageheight rowcount mul neg translate bigpictureproc gsave showpage grestore grestore } for } for } def /inch {72 mul} def /leftmargin .5 inch def /botmargin .25 inch def /pagewidth 7.5 inch def /pageheigth 10 inch def /poster { gsave 3 3 scale % % Insert your single page drawing here % grestore } def {poster} 3 3 printposter