[gs-devel] scale postscript file to fit a3 paper

[Ray Johnston]

Sebastian,

PDF is a random access format. When Ghostscript creates PDF it may
do a little 'seeking' (random access) but most of this is handled
by creating several temporary files that can be read as needed in
a mostly sequential fashion. I doubt that Ghostscript can create
PDF output without (some) random access capability to the temp
files and the output file.

Regards,
Ray
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Sebastian Orfino wrote:

> Ray,
> 
>     Thanks for your answer, it worked pretty well at least for the files 
> I could test so far.
> 
>     I have another question if you dont matter: I read somewhere that 
> PDFs files need to be accesed randomly -due to the intrinsics of the 
> format, I guess. Is this true only for reading or the same happens when 
> GS creates such files ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Sebastian.
> 
> On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 08:12 PM, Ray Johnston wrote:
> 
>> Sebastian,
>>
>> It's hard to tell why this didn't work, but -dFIXEDMEDIA does NOT
>> lock in the default resolution (default CTM).
>>
>> The effects of the 'scale' operator can easily be overridden by
>> PS files using direct CTM setting, or by using 'initgraphics'
>> or any operators that re-initialize the graphics state (such as
>> setpage or setpagedevice).
>>
>> The default scaling can be set using the /Install procedure of the
>> setpagedevice operator as in:
>>
>>   << /Install { .92 .78 scale } bind >> setpagedevice
>>
>> Try this and see if it works better. This can be fed to the
>> 'gs' command using the -c option (in quotes) or as PS on the
>> command line instead of the 'scale' command you used.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ray
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Ray Johnston
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