Re: [guide-user] Postscript change

Bill J Gray Sep 5, 2010

Hi Larry,

> When I save a Guide image to postscript format the image is saved in portrait
> orientation with a 640 tall x 480 wide. This is a change from last month when it
> was in a normal width 640 W X 480 T.

Ouch. Thanks for catching this.

If you edit 'startup.mar', you'll see that line 22 looks like this:

22 printer 0 0 ! PRN 0 0

Change the first zero to a one. That number controls landscape versus
portrait for PostScript printouts. (You didn't have trouble with this
before, because until recently, the number was completely ignored...
except in the DOS version of Guide, where it was probably last used
a decade ago.)

I see two possible solutions here, to get a way to select landscape
versus portrait that isn't quite so user-abusive. One would be to get
the landscape versus portrait setting from the Printer Setup dialog.
Another, probably better, way would be to to say: if the current
on-screen window is wider than it is high, produce a landscape printout.
Otherwise, make a portrait one. That is to say, make a printout that
uses the full page but also does the best job of matching the current
window area... I'll probably go with that solution.

-- Bill