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Re: Strange PRINTER Coordinates [message #20885 is a reply to message #20883]

Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> writes:

> I believe that the PRINTER device must keep track of the printable
> region on the page. It's different for different printers. If you
> look under $IDL_DIR/resource/xprinter/ppds, you can locate lines like
> this in each ppd file:

> *ImageableArea Letter: "18 8 593 784 "
> *ImageableArea Legal: "65 42 547 966 "

> What is unfortunate is that the IDL coordinate system is referenced to
> corner of the printable region rather than the corner of the physical
> page, like most sane page description languages would do.

> Craig

Does this mean that a PostScript file created with object graphics will print
differently on different printers? That would be very bad.

William Thompson

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		Re: Strange PRINTER Coordinates By: davidf on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Strange PRINTER Coordinates By: thompson on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Strange PRINTER Coordinates By: davidf on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Strange PRINTER Coordinates By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Strange PRINTER Coordinates By: davidf on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Strange PRINTER Coordinates By: promashkin on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Strange PRINTER Coordinates By: Ben Tupper on Mon, 31 July 2000 00:00

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