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Post Landscape

    28-Jul-92 23:12:55
Sb: #64010-Post Landscape
Fm: Christopher Tolmie 73657,3335
To: Gracia M. Littauer 73670,1020
Gracia, To get out of interactive in Post just type Quit. That is the postscript command. I tried a landscape page in post today after we talked. I set my default page in PPage to 11 x 8.5, went into Postscript Output Specs and clicked on Landscape. The outline of the page area reconfigured itself to the new page dimension. Before it was not aligned with the page. I just centerd some text in the one box and set the point size to 72. Printed this to a postscript file and had it download the font to the file. I then loaded up Post's user interface. I typed in init.ps in the startup-file list, clicked on printer, when I did this Post got my GFX printer preferences from Prefs. I'm using Pixels, my X dimension is 2448 and Y is 3204, legal would be Y = 4104. Post redrew its display window to an 8.5 x 11 page. I then loaded the file and Post output it to screen just fine. Of course it was displayed in the vertical plane. After about another 20 seconds Post output that screen to my printer. If came out just fine. Post gets a lot of its information from the printer settings in your WB preferences. It is best to set these up instead of relying on setting them for each Post session. You can set the same thing up I just described without using the screen or GUI. Just like you do in Shell, but I prefer to look over the screen display. Make sure you set the DPI to 300. I believe that is Printer density #4. Chris