Re: [tkined] print postscript in tkined

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:59:49 +0200

>>>>> Vincent Qing Yin writes:

Vincent> When we view a MIB tree in tkined, we can save the image as
Vincent> Postscript file. But most mib trees are bigger than one
Vincent> page. So I have two questions:

Vincent> 1. Can we print it to multiple pages? I use `lpr' and HP
Vincent> Laserjet printers. And I only get one page that contains
Vincent> only a portion of the image.

Vincent> 2. Can we print it in landscape instead of portrait? I
Vincent> tried to change "Landscape" to "Portrait" in the line
Vincent> %%Orientation: Portrait near the beginning of the PS file. I
Vincent> also tried to set the printer itself to Landscape. But they
Vincent> don't work.

Vincent> Anyway, the mib I have is too long for one page and too wide
Vincent> for portrait orientation. How do people solve this problem?

The Tk folks claim that they generate encapsulated postscript. Every
tool which can process encapsulated postscript can be used to change
for example the page boundaries.
Juergen

Juergen Schoenwaelder schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/~schoenw
Technical University Braunschweig, Dept. Operating Systems & Computer Networks
Bueltenweg 74/75, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. (Tel. +49 531 / 391 3283)

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