On 9/20/07, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > On 9/20/07, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Carl Lowenstein wrote: > >>> On 9/20/07, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >> Aha, looks like that could be the ticket. I just printed to a .ps file,
> >> then fed the .ps to lp and got the doc printed (with large portions
> >> chopped off, of course) on a card.
> >
> > When you say "large portions chopped off" do you mean that the
> > information that should be on the 3x5 was scaled up to fit the larger
> > page?
>
> Yes; the printout on the card was just a 3x5 chunk taken from the 8.5x11
> page.
>
> > Maybe "print to file" has an option to scale small images to fit, or
> > not to scale. Print from Adobe Reader has this option.
>
> No, and besides, I don't want the whole page scaled. I want the text to
> stay the same size, just to reflow margins so it fits on the card.
Reflow margins is beyond the capability of simple programs. Including
PostScript in its usual usage.
How does "simplegtd" know what size printer you have? I don't think
it can get any feedback from printer properties that you set on your
system. PostScript is a computer language that as a side effect puts
images onto a piece of paper. Normally all of the page formatting
(handling line lengths etc.) is done in some other program.
> >> Now I just need to learn more about PostScript, and which portions of
> >> the file to change so that I can reformat the document properly.
> >
Maybe if I had a sample of your simplegtd output I could look at it for ideas.
carl
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