scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester) (06/05/90)
I'm having trouble printing a TeX document on legal size paper. I've done the obvious, which includes: % dvips -o manualfeed -o legal file.dvi The result is that it doesn't apparently know that it's printing on legal paper, i.e. the output is truncated at about 11 inches, and the printer thinks that "Papuh is jammed in your printuh." I even tried: % dvips -f -o legal file.dvi > file.ps which does not, of course, work (but which I included to show all of you attentive net people that I *know* that it doesn't work :-), and then: % dvips -o legal file.dvi& % su # cd /usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer # link d* file.ps # : wait until the dvips finishes... # lprm # mv file.ps # ^D % lpr -M file.ps Pretty gross, huh? I've also tried this to a LaserWriter Plus, by printing the PostScript file, created with the -o manualfeed option to dvips. The light blinks for a while and I eventually get a banner page. If I can complain a little while I'm here; why doesn't dvips have a -P option like everything else does? And why doesn't the -f option work? ----- Scott Deerwester | Internet: scott@tira.uchicago.edu Center for Information and | Phone: 312-702-6948 Language Studies | 1100 E. 57th, CILS University of Chicago | Chicago, IL 60637
dgc@euphemia.math.ucla.edu (David G. Cantor) (06/06/90)
In article <9594@tank.uchicago.edu> scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester) writes: I'm having trouble printing a TeX document on legal size paper. I've done the obvious, which includes: % dvips -o manualfeed -o legal file.dvi . . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is one of several related problems with dvips on the NeXT. To make legal size work on the NeXT it is necessary that the comment %%PaperSize: Legal appear immediately after the comment %%BeginSetup in the generated postscript. Similarly, to make manual feed work, you must insert the comment %%Feature: ManualFeed True in the same section of the generated postscript. I have modified my own version of dvips to do these things, but haven't distributed it because I haven't had time to make everything work. For example, the combination of legalsize and landscape is still fouled up. To learn about these arcane mysteries look at the postscript generated by WriteNow (obtainable by using preview from the print panel). I might note, in the interests of arcanity that the above doesn't work when the moon is full and the tide is low :-). dgc David G. Cantor Department of Mathematics University of California at Los Angeles Internet: dgc@math.ucla.edu