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- From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
- Subject: Re: pageview question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.212403.3224@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 21:24:03 GMT
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- Liam R. E. Quin <lee@sq.sq.com>
- > Watch for EPS files that contain %%Page (they shouldn't!).
-
- scott@statsci.com: <Scott Blachowicz>
- > [By my interpretation of what I've read...] Yes, they can.
- > So long as there is only one page, then things are SUPPOSED to be OK.
- > I have heard of software that claims having %%Page makes it non-EPS, though.
- > If 'pageview' is such a package, I'd call it broken.
-
- Looking at
-
- Required Comments
- %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
- %%BoundingBox: LLx LLy URx URy
-
- Optional Comments:
- %%Title: doc_title
- %%Creator: your name
- %%CreationDate date_and_time
- %%EndComments
-
- In addition, the following comments are permitted:
- Fonts:
- %%DocumentFonts
- %%IncludeFont
- %%BeginFont
- %%EndFont
- %%DocumentNeededFonts
- Files:
- %%IncludeFile
- %%BeginFile
- %%EndFile
- Colour:
- %%DocumentProcessColors
- %%DocumentCustomColors
- %%BeginProcessColor
- %%EndProcessColor
- %%BeginCustomColor
- %%EndCustomColor
- (and again for CMYK and RGB colours)
- Preview:
- %%BeginPreview
- %%EndPreview
-
- In sec. 5.3 we have:
- The showpage operator is permitted in EPS files.... It is the including
- document's responsibility to disable showpage if needed.
- (there's an example of how to do this)
-
- One example has
- %%Pages: 0
- but no %%Page 0 0 comment, ass one would expect.
-
- The comment %%Pages is not specifically permitted, however.
-
- I think a good general rule is to avoid having %%Page: comments for
- an illustration intended only to be included on a page.
- If nothing else, giving it a separate %%Page comment defeats the purpose
- of the %%Page: comments, since the comment will not start a new page.
-
- Lee
-
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