wright@med.wcc.govt.nz (03/04/91)
Does anyone have a rotate.sty file for the Hewlett Packard Laserjet Series II printer or know where I can get something that will let me print in landscape format.
xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) (03/05/91)
In article <1991Mar4.161245.4097@med.wcc.govt.nz> wright@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:
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* Does anyone have a rotate.sty file for the Hewlett Packard Laserjet
* Series II printer or know where I can get something that will let me
* print in landscape format.
There is not such thing exists. Rotate can not be done within TeX.
rotate.sty rotates postscript.
Since HP LJ II is not a native PS speaker, the rotate.sty won't work.
The solutions I can think of includes:
1) Bye a postscript cartridge and use Tom's dvips.
2) Use emTeX's driver. It rotates on a page basis. You might need to
use ``print twice'' technique.
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wright@med.wcc.govt.nz (03/07/91)
I have recieved this reply to a note I posted on our system. It seems to work ok but the quality is not very good. If someone can correct the "bug" please let us know. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >1. Is there something similar for HP Laserjet Series II printers? > Either inputing an angle or for Landscape format. To print in landscape use the /L option on dvi2hp. This has to come after the file name and be separated by a space. Because you are now passing a parameter including a space to dvi2hp, the whole lot has to be enclosed in quotes ("), eg: File: "FOO /L"__________________________ This will do the rotation but you will have to do your own \setlengths to change the \textwidth, \textheight, etc. This is what I have used in one landscape document: \documentstyle{article} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in} \setlength{\textwidth}{9.5in} \setlength{\textheight}{6in} \setlength{\topmargin}{-1in} \begin{document} ... The only problem with this is that due to a bug in dvi2hp that I have never been able to correct, you get thin white lines running up your characters.