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Re: ghostscript - any way to fit to printable area?

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In article <58aab8e2-b98f-41c3-8e8b-
7fd4f7f2079c@i6g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>, freakyacres@gmail.com says...

> We have around 500 blueprints we print each week using ghostscript or
> gsprint.  Most are us letter but some a4 and a few 11x17.  The current
> printer has 4mm hard margins on each side.  Sometimes the printed
> output gets clipped at these hard margins when printing with
> ghostscript depending on how close the engineer drew to the edge of
> the page.  Adobe reader has an option "fit to printable area" that
> takes the pdf and scales it up or down to fit within the hard
> margins.  This is what I am trying to do.  How would I know which way
> to scale the output and manipulate the origin?  Can ghostscript figure
> this out somehow?

If you set the width and height of the output to be the exact dimensions 
of the printable area, and probably set -dFIXEDMEDIA, then set the 
PageSizePolicy to '3' which is 'select nearest and scale to fit' then it 
should work I would think.

"<</PageSizePolicy 3>> setpagedevice"

Of course, I have no idea how you are sending the output to the printer.


			Ken

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    Re: ghostscript - any way to fit to printable area? jhgrredbjhj <freakyacres@gmail.com> - 2011-12-16 04:56 -0800
      Re: ghostscript - any way to fit to printable area? John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2011-12-16 08:44 -0800
        Re: ghostscript - any way to fit to printable area? Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2011-12-16 18:12 +0100
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      Re: ghostscript - any way to fit to printable area? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-12-16 17:31 +0000
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