On 9/20/07, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > On 9/20/07, Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I can't figure out how to get a 3x5 inch option in
> >> CentOS's "Printer Properties" dialog.
> >
> > Print to a 3x5 part of an 8.5x11 sheet.
>
> That would be good, but the document I want to print isn't something I
> can change margins on. I'm trying to print to-do lists from
> http://simplegtd.com straight from Firefox onto cards.
>
> I realize I can cut/paste the info into a OOo doc and print it like
> that, but this is something I'll want to do fairly frequently so I'd
> prefer not to have that many steps.
>
> <vox="whiny">But OS X can do this so easily...</vox>
I bet that NeXTstep could do it too. OS X uses PDF as its native
display language, NeXTstep used display PostScript.
What happens if you print from simplegtd to a regular 8.5x11 sheet?
Where on the page is the 3x5 card image?
Can you print to a file? This should give you a PostScript file that
can be edited by the text editor of your choice to translate and
rotate as needed to fit on the 8.5x11 sheet in the place that the 3x5
card would be when it is run through the printer. gv (GhostView) is a
great tool for looking at the results without actually printing them.
Once you figure out what transformation is needed, you can use the
scripting language of your choice to do it automatically. Sounds like
a job for sed(1).
carl
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