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Hello everybody On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Scott Klement wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, James Rich wrote: > > > > > > I found something strange -- I'll send you the SCS file, so you can > > > reproduce it... > > > > Okay, that should be fixed now. The scs file you sent doesn't have the > > spps code in it; it never sets the page size. scs2pdf had a default page > > size that worked for the old code but not the new stuff. So fixing the > > default helped. Then I noticed that the page size was being computed > > wrong because we used ints instead of floats. That's all working now, > > tested with the scs file you sent me. > > Except that my page is 14"x11", but your default cuts it off at 8.5x11. > I wonder if we can guess at the page size by the number of columns of text > that are sent to us? There is a paper called IPDS and SCS Technical Reference: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/prsys/pdfs/54453124.pdf On page 203 there is an explanation whether portrait or landscape mode has to be used. To decide this, the Page width and length is calculated as follows: Characters per line (MPP) Physical Page Width = ---------------------------- (in inches) Font pitch (characters per inch, CPI) Lines per page (MPL) Physical Page Length = -------------------- (in inches) Lines per inch (LPI) If you always use the same Font and ignore Font commands (like SCD, SFG), this should be easy. Remember that some commands (like SPPS and SHM/SVM) use inch-based parameters and rely on correct font pitch. They have to be ignored too. Hope this helps. Dietmar B�rkle
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