Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Michael Unger Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Change paper size Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:55:34 +0200 Organization: not that I'm aware of ... Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: 2015Q4.usenet.michaelunger@spamgourmet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net dsmPLsgKtPRSkU7/p8v+8A9KkuzpqYoTqrK+IT0YFgYG8MgWsR Cancel-Lock: sha1:sPiwH/nDGTi4hbiAHUSWMN5spIg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2369 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 -- Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. My e-mail account at DECUS Munich is no longer valid.