- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: Benno Dielmann <address@hidden>
- Cc: <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] printing A0 sized document
- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:43:42 +0200 (CEST)
Hi Benno,
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Benno Dielmann wrote:
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in my continuing struggle with the creation of a conference poster my
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problems
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are getting less but some remain...
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Im working with A0 paper size (Document->Page->Size->A series->A0). When
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setting a shrinking factor bigger than 11, Texmacs crashes saying the
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following on the command line:
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Fatal error: shrinking factor too large in 'x_display_rep::prepare_color'
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Does this mean it doesn't support shrinking factors bigger than 11? This
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makes
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it very hard working with A0-sized documents...
I remove this limitation on the shrinking factor for the next version.
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A second problem is exporting to ps or pdf: Acrobat reader as well as
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kghostview always display the exported file as A4, thus showing only a small
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section of the document. I haven't tried yet to print it because printing to
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A0 is expensive so I didn't want to take the risk... Unfortionately there is
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no option for a0 paper in neither of the two programs.
I guess TeXmacs cannot be blamed here...
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In TeXmacs, there is an option File->Page setup->Paper type which I don't
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really understand because I don't see the difference between this option and
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that in Document->Page->... (see above). And there is no setting for A0.
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Entering "A0" under "Other..." doesn't solve the problem with Acrobat and
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Ghostview.
Yes, the handling of page parameters is not very intuitive;
I plan to change this sometime soon when I have an afternoon.
Best is to set a0 both for the document size and printer configuration.
But if this does not work, then Acrobat and Ghostview are wrong...
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Perhaps it really was a silly idea writing a conference poster with
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TeXmacs...
No, it was a good idea, because it helps us to track down these issues ;^)
B.t.w.: I also corrected the problem with background colors for the next
version.
- Re: [TeXmacs] printing A0 sized document, Joris van der Hoeven, 04/03/2004
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