Postscript from GRASS

[Josef Fuerst]

Steve Culshaw writes:
> 
> (i) I seem to be getting conflicting information concerning the ability 
> of GRASS to produce A3 Postscript - can anyone confirm that they have 
> produced full A3 sized maps from GRASS ?
> 
Yes, I did and it prints on Calcomp Colormaster as well as on HP Paintjet XL
using Ghostscript 2.6.1. (Full A3 means, maybe 2 cm boundary around)

> (ii) I have finally found the switch in ghostscript which sets the size 
> of paper (surprise, surprise -sPAPERSIZE=a3 !). Now when I view my test 
> A3 output, the X11 image suggests that the output is sized for an A3 
> piece of paper - tried an A4 output and it only filled part of the page. 
> This suggests that the answer to (i) above is 'yes it can'
> 
You can use GhostView (a user friendly front end to gs to see the whole page 
(zoom and pan)

Good luck,
Josef Fuerst

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