Dear SLUG,
I have a ridiculously large postscript file that I'd link to shrink down to print on an A4 page (mostly for entertainment value admittedly). What's the easiest way to do this shrinking?
If you wish to reduce the entire page by 2 times add this line:
0.5 0.5 scale
Here is an example pulled from some playing that I did a while ago:
You can see where I have added a "2 2 scale" to double the size.
What is does is to change the scale of the deafult units that the PostScript uses.
%!PS-Adobe-1.0 %%DocumentFonts: (atend) %%Title: Mikes Test File %%Creator: Mike Lake %%CreationDate: Tue Jul 25 21:05:45 EST 2000 %%Pages: (atend) %%BoundingBox: (atend) %%EndComments /Times-Roman findfont 10 scalefont setfont %%EndProlog %%Page: 1 1
2 2 scale
%% Defines
/myCircle
{50 0 360 arc stroke} def%Station positions 10 10 4 0 360 arc stroke 100 100 4 0 360 arc stroke 150 150 2 0 360 arc stroke 175 175 1 0 360 arc stroke 200 200 moveto 250 250 lineto stroke %Station names 0 0 moveto (tatshawl.5) show 101 163 moveto (tatshawl.9) show 86 175 moveto (tatshawl.end) show 391 66 moveto (tatshawl.lbranch.1) show 295 18 moveto (tatshawl.lbranch.2) show 314 50 moveto (tatshawl.lbranch.5) show showpage %%Trailer
%%DocumentFonts: Times-Roman %%Pages: 1 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
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