[ILUG] d&d and printing

[kevin lyda]

Rob Hill spoke thusly:
>> (god i just love drag and drop.  i'm typing this via vi on suberic
>> over an ssh connection.  i just dragged the link to their copyright
>> policy in netscape over my gnome terminal and *poof* there it was.
>> it has a way to go but those amazing gui folks are getting things
>> working together at a pace unix companies never could!)
>
>I can't replicate that (RH6, gnome, vi, gnome-terminal or Eterm, netscape etc)
>what's the story?  oh, and enlightenment

all the same (not eterm), but i'm using the redhat upgrades to gnome?

also, my printing problem from yesterday: i solved it.  a friend in
the states is the only postscript hacker i know, and he wrote up
a little snippet of ps to insert into letter targetted ps files.
you put it in just after the initial comments (!% and %! are equiv
to /* and */ in c i think).

.9 1 scale
userdict /showpage {
        //showpage .9 1 scale
} put

i tried liam's mpage solution, but i think i hit a bug - both gv
and the printer choke on page 2.  page one looked good though.
other people mentioned psutils - probably would have worked, but
i was too lazy to download/compile/install.

as an aside i use vim and have :syntax on in my ~/.exrc.  there's
a postscript mode.  someone edits enough postscript code that they
took the time to make a vi syntax mode for it.

it's a big, crazy world we live on.

kevin