stjohns@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Mike St. Johns) (04/30/89)
One of the applications I'm interested in playing around with generates maps. I'm interested in blowing the maps up by a factor of 2 or 3 during the printing process and getting everything I've painted on the page printed out. I.e. doing a "scale 2 2" and getting 4 physical pages to print out. Perusal of the postscript reference manual suggests that "banddevice" and render bands may be the appropriate set of commands to look at. U Unfortunately, the included descriptive text is very sketchy, and it also says it requires the use of a device dependent set of commands to do some of the low level work. The printer I have to work with is a TI Omnilaser. My only other alternative is to download the data to the printer 4 (or 9) times and scaling and transforming and clipping to print 1/4th of the page at twice the size. Considering the maps I am talking about are 100K bytes each, I don't really like this idea. Has anyone experience with fooling with the "banddevice" routines? Or, failing that, has any one got a way of taking "device space", saving it, clipping portions of it, and transfering a scaled up portion to the physical page? Mike
greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) (05/02/89)
In article <1864@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> stjohns@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Mike St. Johns) writes: > >One of the applications I'm interested in playing around with generates >maps. I'm interested in blowing the maps up by a factor of 2 or 3 >during the printing process and getting everything I've painted on the page >printed out. I.e. doing a "scale 2 2" and getting 4 physical pages >to print out. > >The printer I have to work with is a TI Omnilaser. > >My only other alternative is to download the data to the printer 4 (or 9) >times and scaling and transforming and clipping to print 1/4th of the page >at twice the size. Considering the maps I am talking about are 100K bytes >each, I don't really like this idea. This is your only choice. "banddevice" is designed for typesetters, and I doubt if it is even defined in your TI Omnilaser. Actually, your best bet is to be more intelligent on the host end. Don't just put a "2 2 scale" in front of the whole drawing, because then you have to transmit it four times, as you have noticed. It is better to break the map up into four different files before you start, and get the appropriate scale factor for each one, and map them to pages that way. Then you don't transmit information that isn't needed and clip 3/4 of each file. Glenn Reid Adobe Systems
crtb@nih-csl.UUCP (chuck bacon) (05/03/89)
Here's a way to print an image which is too big for the paper.
It may fail, if `Image' is too huge for the printer's VM.
In this example, `Image' has a coordinate range of 2"<X<14", and 2"<Y<19",
yielding nice 2" margins all around, with a 1" overlap. This image will
be distributed among four 8.5" x 11" sheets.
0.0 10.0 inch 19 inch { % Y range, 1" overlap
0.0 7.5 inch 14 inch { % X range, 1" overlap
neg
1 index neg
gsave
translate Image showpage
grestore
} for
pop
} for
% No `showpage' at the end, because it's in the middle!
Chuck Bacon, crtb@alw.nih.gov
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crtb @ dxi.nih.gov, crtb @ alw.nih.gov, crb @ nihcudec (Bitnet), (301)496-4823lau@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) (05/03/89)
In article <1007@nih-csl.UUCP> crtb@nih-csl.UUCP (chuck bacon) writes: >Here's a way to print an image which is too big for the paper. >It may fail, if `Image' is too huge for the printer's VM. ^^^^ [ straight forward example deleted ] >Chuck Bacon, crtb@alw.nih.gov Actually, there is a very good example of printing across multiple pages in the PostScript tutorial (the "blue" book, recommended and fun reading IMHO) by Addison-Wesley. The only problem with that and this example occurs when the procedure to draw the picture doesn't fit into the printer's memory. Is there a way to get around this problem? Yan. lau@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu
tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) (05/09/89)
why not save yourself a lot of labour and use something like pagemaker. make the PostScript and encapsulated file then select a pagemaker page like tabloid or custom and tile the sucker. tj