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Re: Change paper size

From Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Change paper size
Date 2015-10-21 16:55 +0200
Organization not that I'm aware of ...
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On 2015-10-21 14:01, "Steve" wrote:

>    I have an HP 2550 PostScript printer.  I recently wanted to use
> legal paper in the manual feed to increase the size of an object
> being printed to be cut out and folded.  Just feeding it the
> larger paper did not work.  I went to the Hewlett Packard site
> and got the Printer Job Language documents and succeeded in
> changing the print area to legal from letter size.  I am wondering
> what would be required for another brand of printer?  Looking at
> the PostScript Language Reference Manual did not show an easy
> way to do it at first glance.  There was mention of changing
> entries in a dictionary, but that looked complex.

I'm not quite sure if I'm understanding your problem correctly ...

In my own PostScript files there is a statement like

| << /PageSize [595.3 841.9]
| >> setpagedevice

at the very beginning, defining the current page size ("ISO A4",
portrait orientation, in this case).

If you want to enlarge the page content as well you'll have to include a
"scale" (and perhaps a "rotate") command at the beginning.

Michael

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Change paper size Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2015-10-21 12:01 +0000
  Re: Change paper size Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-10-21 13:30 +0100
  Re: Change paper size Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2015-10-21 16:55 +0200
    Re: Change paper size Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2015-10-21 17:16 +0000
      Re: Change paper size jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 15:20 -0700
        Re: Change paper size luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-29 18:16 -0700
          Re: Change paper size Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2015-10-30 15:43 +0100
            Re: Change paper size jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 02:55 -0700
            Re: Change paper size jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 04:35 -0700
              Re: Change paper size Antti Louko <alo@iki.fi> - 2015-10-31 15:39 +0200
            Re: Change paper size Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 23:18 -0700

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