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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: Re: Xerox 2700 II info wanted
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Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 15:10:12 EST
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Summary: It's all in the fonts

In article <4214@ecsvax.UUCP> dfh@ecsvax.UUCP (David Hinnant) writes:
>It's a Xerox 2700 II and spits out pages quite fast.

It's been so long.........but I'll try to remember.

>It's got a default font that prints in landscape mode, and the users
>manual mentions that this is an installation setting (its preference
>for landscape over portrait mode and the font type).  I'm trying to
>figure out how to change to portrait mode under software control, still
>using whatever default fonts are available.

In the manual I have, this is explained in section 3.11.3.12, "Page
Orientation".  Basically, the page orientation (landscape vs. portrait) is
determined by the first font *used* on the page.  A 2700 "font" (using the
term loosely) is either landscape or portrait, but not both.  This means
you have to have two separate fonts even if their only difference is the
orientation they will be used in.  Also, if after using a font of one
orientation, the document switches to and uses a font of the other
orientation, the 2700 will start a new page.  It only does one orientation
per page.

So to answer your question, you have to switch to a portrait mode font.
This of course means that you have to have a portrait mode font.....
If there is a ROM-resident one in the machine, use that.  The default font
is XCP14-L, right?  Does Xerox make a font called XCP14-P?  If it does, it
will be the portrait mode equivalent of XCP14-L.

>Is there a troff
>filter a la transcript or dev/ps for this beast or am I asking too much?

There is such a beast, called xroff, put out by Image Network, I think?

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University