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- The DistillPS program is an adapted version of the SendPS
- program that has been available for some time. There are
- several features for downloading PostScript language programs.
- The options under the "File" menu are for simple downloading
- of files, for distilling files, and for timing them.
-
- The "Distill" option requires the file "still.ps" to be in
- your System Folder. This file is supplied in this distribution,
- and may be updated without updating the rest of the DistillPS
- application. The file you select for distillation will cause
- another file to be created which is derived from the original
- file name by adding an "x" to the end:
-
- myfile.ps -> myfile.psx
-
- The resulting file is also a PostScript language program, and
- may be downloaded or sent with the timing test.
-
- The timing option simply precedes the PostScript language
- file by some timing code (similar to that found in the
- file "timepages.ps" available from Adobe in various forms).
- With this feature, any pages printed by the program will have
- the execution time printed at the top of the page. The
- execution time is broken into two parts: the time spent
- before "showpage", and the time spent during "showpage". The
- reason for this is that in some printers some of the work
- of rasterization is actually delayed until "showpage" is
- called, and done on the fly.
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