[cups.general] filter options effect banner too
Alex Finch
A.Finch at lancaster.ac.uk
Thu Dec 23 07:28:07 PST 2004
Michael Sweet wrote:
> Alex Finch wrote:
>
>>
>> Hm, seems like a bit of a design flaw there then!
>
>
> Around here we call them "features!" :)
>
> Seriously, there was a time when we discussed the merits of
> rotating or not rotating banner pages along with the rest of the
> print job, and the customers driving the requirement (== paying)
> said they wanted the banner to have the same orientation as the
> rest of the job.
>
Shame you didn't make it optional behaviour,seems I need to become a
postscript guru now to fix it!
>> Can you help me write a banner page that is impervious to being
>> rotated, without disrupting the following job? I have a carefully
>> crafted banner, designed to work with our output stacker. Rotating it
>> 90 degrees rather spoils the effect.
>
>
> You can use dtranform (I think that is the PS procedure) to see which
> direction the page is rotated, and then apply the corresponding
> transform and rotate to "unrotate" things.
>
I looked up dtransform in a postscript reference manual, don't see how it
helps me!
--
Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University.
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