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Date: Sun 25-Jun-1989 17:11:48 From: Unknown Subject: Legal Size Printing Has anyone had any success in printing a postscript file on legal size paper using lpr? The Next printer suffers a paper jam when lpr is invoked with legal size paper loaded. (For example try enscript -L78 foo.txt, where foo.txt will result in more than 1 page of output). The jam seems to result because the printer's feed mechanism doesn't know its supposed to be pushing legal paper. There doesn't appear to be a flag to lpr or any of the TRANSCRIPT family of commands to request legal size. This suggested to me that maybe the %%%BoundingBox dimensions are used, but inspecting numerous postscript files doesn't verify this hypothesis. Does the application have to to an ioctl to select legal size? Any advice would be appreciated. Note that this problem does not arise when printing on legal size from WriteNow. ------------------------------- Rick Morrison | {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!morrison Dept. of Computer Science| morrison@cs.ubc.ca Univ. of British Columbia| morrison%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 | morrison@ubc.csnet (ubc-csgrads=128.189.97.20) (604) 228-4327 >From: owen@eedsp.gatech.edu (Owen Adair)
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