[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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