The options described in the CUPS docs may be what I need. Thanks. Michael
On 9/5/07 7:14 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 5, 2007, at 1:17 AM, Michael Barton wrote: > >> I did some experimentation with the lpr part of mapprint.tcl >> tonight. I'm >> thinking that maybe I've done this before and come up with the same >> result--and that is why I turned to ghostscript. >> >> TclTk will output to a PS file that looks just fine when I open it. >> >> However, just sending this to lpr (>>lpr file.ps) gives a very poor >> result. >> The map is up against the upper right edges of the page, rather >> than being >> centered. It is clipped on all edges but the bottom and clipped a >> significant amount on the left side of the map (a side which is NOT >> against >> the edge of a page). >> >> Is there something I'm missing in sending this to lpr? >> >> Michael > > What about job options? The CUPS manual has better documentation > than the lpr man page. Check http://localhost:631/documentation.html. > > A mismatch of the document orientation and the job orientation can > cause odd clipping. And default position is probably upper-left, but > again orientation can cause trouble, rotation said upper left to > another corner. > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > "We are at war with them. Neither in hatred nor revenge and with no > particular pleasure I shall kill every ___ I can until the war is > over. That is my duty." > > "Don't you even hate 'em?" > > "What good would it do if I did? If all the many millions of people > of the allied nations devoted an entire year exclusively to hating > the ____ it wouldn't kill one ___ nor shorten the war one day." > > <Ha, ha> "And it might give 'em all stomach ulcers." > > - Tarzan, on war > __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
