On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 08:01:36PM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> I want to create a Postscript file with the text turned 90 degrees from
> horizontal.
> :
Many thanks to Clarke, Ralph and Ted (and by indirection, Werner) for all the
pointers. My final form was
shell script:
tmpfile=/tmp/$$.$( basename $0 )
trap " rm -f ${tmpfile} " 0
export PRINTER=DYMO_LabelWriter_450_Turbo
# -P args go to grops(1)
# -p<papersize>
# -l landscape
groff -P -p4.0000i,2.3125i \
-P -l
-M ${HOME}/lib/tmac \
-m PrintLabels_macros \
"$@" >${tmpfile}
gv --media=Dymo ${tmpfile}
dymo.troff:
\# Dymo 30256 LW Large White Shipping Labels
.ll 4.3500i \" 4 inches + 0.35 inch fudge factor!
.pl 2.1625i \" 2 5/16 inches - 0.15 inch fudge factor!
:
The fudge factors where found by painful, incremental experimentation
needed to make a label formated to 4 x 2.3125 inches print properly on
the Dymo printer's 4 x 2.3125 inch labels.
Ever it has been so. Sigh.
Again, many thanks for the pointers and those in the distance past that made
the whole process possible.
--
Mike Bianchi
