[scribus] numbering

[John Beardmore]

Frank Cox wrote:

> Thank you.  I shall play around with this.  It looks very useful indeed.

It's been handy for us, and I guess it seemed easier than writing a C 
program to generate the postscript.  It's certainly more compact, and 
does away with having an executable as such.

We only use it once a year, but I think we've used it since at least 2001.

Anyway -  it's nice to see postscript used as a programming language 
rather than as a page layout language for once.

It's probably worth my mentioning that rather than working in a 'points' 
based coordinate system, I did it in the coordinate system of a graphics 
application we wrote which produced landscape output, 0 to 12,500 on the 
x axis, 0 to 10,000 on the y axis, hence...

     568 0 translate
     90 rotate
     780 12500 div 528 10000 div scale

and 200

     /Helvetica-Bold findfont 200 scalefont setfont

gives a plausible font size.

No doubt it could be simplified, but I'm used to thinking in our 
coordinate system.

"/x1 900 def" through "/y1 100 def" sets the location of the numbers 
printed, and "/TktStr 15 string def" sets the number of the first ticket 
to 15.  You'll generally want some other number.


Cheers, J/.
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