[daip] Re: TVCPS

[Eric Greisen]

Patrick P. Murphy writes:
 > Dave Hogg and I went through an "interesting" experiment just now, trying
 > to figure out why the new printer up here was rejecting his TVCPS output.
 > It turns out that he had inadvertently left APARM set to (1,-1) so the
 > width of the result was, well, smaller than he intended.  Once we spotted
 > this, and reset APARM to all zeros, it worked fine.
 > 
 > TVCPS didn't generate any warnings, and the PS it produces is not
 > printable or viewable AFAICT.  We may want to put some bounds checking in;
 > just a suggestion.

What it did was to set the default margin as 0.5in and 2x that was too
big for the 1.0in full width.  The -1 was turned into 11in but that
would then be limited to keep the picture in the right aspect ratio.
I changed it to keep the margin < 1/3 of the width and height.

Eric