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- From: dph1kg@durham.ac.uk (Karl Glazebrook)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: pageview
- Message-ID: <BsD1MM.54J@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 2 Aug 92 14:30:21 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.093813.16545@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Department of Physics, University of Durham
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- In article 16545@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov, earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support) writes:
- > The OpenWindows 2.0 and 3.0 "pageview" wants documents to follow the accepted
- > PostScript Language Structuring Conventions, i.e. be a good PostScript
- > citizen. This means things like "%%Page:" and "%%Trailer" and "%%Pages:"
- > comments in the text, so it can find where each page ends and where the next
- > page begins.
-
- Hmm it turns out my dvips driver (from ArborText) was producing '%%Page ' instead
- of '%%Page: '. Also I was including postscript figures each of which had their
- own out of sequence %%Page: comments. A bit of judicious editing fixed this.
-
- Sigh.
-
- I don't see what the point of this %%Page stuff is. After all the laser printer
- manages to figure out the page breaks OK without this help! So does CDA viewer
- in DECwindows.
-
- Maybe someone from Adobe would care to explain the logic behind having language
- commands in the comment fields? This seems crazy.
-
- Karl.
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