Re: tkined printing

Robert Jansen [VUBnet] (rjansen@vub.ac.be)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:35:07 +0200

At 8:34 AM +0930 29/7/97, Brian Schroeder wrote:
>>Oh, here gois...again...
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I have posted about this problem once before, and I truly can't beleive
>>that no one has solved this...
>>
>>While printing a map larger than A4 to a postscript printer ( I am trying
>>to print an A0 map ) only a small fragment of the map is printed.
>>(...)
>>
>>The only answer I got to my last letter, was a person stating that he had
>>the same problem that I did. Are there really just the two of us that
>>have run
>>into this problem ??
>>
>>Regards,
>> Tor Sigurdsson
>
>No, there are NOT just the two of you. I have that problem too, and have
>been watching for a reply to your first posting.
>

Well,...(and I got this from somebody else)..
When printing in an X environment, generally no size information is included
in your Postsript output. (Well,... tkined/scotty has this behaviour)
Most PostScript printers default to their standard printing region
(which is generally the smallest region to avoid wasting paper) when
there is NO printing region info in the PostScript.
So,... You should edit the PostScript output before sending it to your
super A0 plotter and add this info.
(or write a script/printer-filter....)
(Don't ask me how or what to add in the Postscript,.. our local printer guru
wrote something for me.)

Hope this helps.

Regards

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