Postscript - document size

Question

how to set page size in the postscript? how to rotate the document to width? . .

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newpath
100 200 moveto
200 250 lineto
100 300 lineto
2 setlinewidth
stroke

showpage

Thank you.

See the example in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8072070/automatic-paper-selection-using-postscript?rq=1. To 'rotate' -- you cannot actually *rotate* the page inside the printer, can you? -- you need to rotate your drawing. — Jongware, Oct 28 '13 at 22:48

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '13 at 22:58

7

To set the page size to A4 landscape use:

<< /PageSize [842 595] >> setpagedevice

before the first marking operator. Rotation is not needed.
Full PostScript reference is at http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

answered Nov 05 '13 at 22:58

Stefanov.sm

Any reason why this wouldn't work for a file? I used it earlier and it worked like a charm. I checked out the postscript reference and it seems link they might have removed the postscript reference pdf? – Shmack Mar 07 '21 at 01:36
The reason might be that the file contains code that inits the graphic system in its prolog section. The reference pdf can be found [here](https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/actionscript/articles/PLRM.pdf) – Stefanov.sm Mar 07 '21 at 17:29
I had too many `grestore`s so I guess it was popping it off the stack. – Shmack Mar 11 '21 at 16:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '13 at 06:31

1

To switch to landscape format:

Move origin from lower left to lower right corner, then rotate the coordinate system 90 degrees.

595 0 translate % 595 is width of A4 paper in points
90 rotate

answered Oct 29 '13 at 06:31

Terje D.

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