Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 18:43:21 +0000 () From: Robert Burns <rjbproc@Vir.com> To: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ghostscript and HP Laserjet II Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950906180804.2206A-100000@zeta.avenet.com> In-Reply-To: <9509061238.AA07458@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at>
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> > When I print tiff2ps files using gs configured for laserjet, the output is
> > cropped by about 25 pixels on the top and 50 pixels on the right margin.
>
> GhostScript's printer drivers have an internal notion of margins. They crop
> off everything that falls out of them. I had to reduce right margin on my
> installation in order not to lose some page space.
How did you go about doing this?
>
> The top margin is probably reduced because gs believes that you use different
> paper size than the one required by .ps file. It always tries to align
> bottom margin right. If the file requires a4, you will have to specify
> PAPERSIZE=a4 on gs command line.
>
I added PAPERSIZE=a4 to unix-lpr.sh but nothing changed.
> > I know the complete image is contained in the Postscript file because I can
> > see it using gs in my X display.
>
> > If tried a number of things but I am unable to solve the problem. Please
> > help!
>
> It would have helped have you enumeratd the things you have tried.
I tried playing around with the resolution, page size, and pixel density
on tiff2ps and gs commands.
I did manage to get a good printout only after I changed the following
line (16) directly in the Postscript file:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Creator: tiff2ps
%%Title: fax000142
%%CreationDate: Tue Sep 5 21:40:54 1995
%%Origin: 0 0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 610 791
%%Pages: (atend)
%%EndComments
%%Page: 1 1
gsave
100 dict begin
609.882324 790.530640 scale
%ImageData: 1728 1076 1 1 0 1 2 "image"
/scanLine 216 string def
1728 1076 1
[1728 0 0 -1076 0 1076] ---> changed to [1728 0 -50 -1100 0 1076]
{currentfile scanLine readhexstring pop} bind
image
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