Ken Baker wrote:
>> Does anybody know how to force prettybox to use A3 sized output? We've got
> output which occupies 2 landscape A4 pages, and we want to print it onto
> portrait A3. (For those unfamiliar with European paper sizes, A4 is
> roughly letter-sized, A3 is like two A4's stuck together along their long
> edges.)
>> The photocopier won't reproduce all those nice halftones 8-(, and we don't
> have access to a postscript editing package.
>> Anybody got any bright ideas?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Ken.
>> --
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P.S. (pun intended)
You can also use the postscript language to put colour into your prettybox files. I wrote the
enclosed routines to replace the existing ones in the prettybox output. You can specific the
colour of boxes using RGB notation, then output to a Deskjet (or even a slidemaker) using
Ghostview.
/docolor { %do coloured boxes with black letters
newpath
setrgbcolor
2 copy
moveto
box
moveto
0 setgray
.22 .2 rmoveto
show
} def
/black { %red box, black letter
1 0.1 0.1 docolor
} def
/white { %white box, black letter
1 doblack
} def
/dark { %dark pink box, black letter
1.0 0.3 0.3 docolor
} def
/light { %pink box, black letter
1.0 0.5 0.5 docolor
} def
/pale { %pale pink box, black letter
1 0.7 0.7 docolor
} def
Andy
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