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Postscript will be shown wrong on Mac OS

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Stefan Mettenbrink

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Dec 30, 2012, 5:56:51 AM12/30/12
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I have a ps-file, that (should, I don't know how) be shown well on
windows, but on Mac OS the landscape format is to small. A part on the
right site is cutted off.

I have no idea how to fix this. Can someone here help me please?

You can download the file here:
<http://www.familienbande-genealogie.de/Test/Ahn_Tafel7.ps>

Greatings from germany, Stefan Mettenbrink.

(Sorry for my bad english)

Helge Blischke

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Jan 4, 2013, 1:24:56 PM1/4/13
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Well, on Mac OS X the Preview application uses the utility pstopdf to
convert PostScript files to PDF and displays the latter.
The default page size pstopdf uses seems to be US Letter in portrait
orientation.
You should modify your PostScript setup to generate a correct
setpagedevice statement for e.g. A4 landscape format to ensure that the
resulting PDF is correct.

By the way, the gv utility (not standard on Mac OS X but on Linux) dieplays
the file correctly.

Helge

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