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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, James Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I am trying to run a business and taped paper would not really impress
> > people with my cleverness.  It also might get stuck in the fax machine - I
> > am supposed to sign and fax someone the form.  I finally signed the 3/4
> > page, which luckily ended just above the instructions.
>
> Actually I had in mind temporary taping--like using a couple of small
> pieces just to hold it together while it goes through the printer. Then
> you remove the scrap end--which doesn't have anything printed on it
> anyway. Comprendo?

Things like this tend to get stuck in the sheet feeder, and I would have 
had to feed it once through the printer, and then the fax machine.  I have 
enough problems with the sheet feeder sometimes grabbing three sheets at 
once and printing a page across all of them.  A better solution might be 
to tape together the two sheets and feed them to my dot-matrix printer 
just far enough so that the page I need prints on the second sheet of the 
pair that was taped together.

Many ways to print  a defective file.

> > What is a widget?
>
> I guess there are varying definitions. In UI-speak (user interface) I
> think refers to small graphical elements that get used to create the
> interface: corners, the little x box in the upper right hand window
> corner--stuff like that. I'm sort of guessing based on how I've seen the
> word used. I've never actually done anything with widgets myself, and
> doubt I ever will.

Stuff used to make a GUI interface?

Maybe there is some way to enlarge via CLI - I will read the instructions 
for gs.  Psview for DOS did not need a GUI interface and it let me enlarge 
and then just print the parts I wanted.  I had to first convert to ps. 
Gv supposedly does ps or pdf.  A way to rotate would sometimes be handy 
for when people scan things sideways but I can always convert to images, 
which are easy to manipulate.

I could use bmv to view ps files too, but it expects gs to work with 
vgalib so I would need the old gs and I have renamed it gs-510 so that I 
can use the new gs, rather than rewriting the print filters for gs-850.
I would also somehow have to specify vgalib for old gs but then that would 
change the display for new gs, which I could not compile for vgalib.
Any ideas on how to handle all this?

 >
> James
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