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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How do you make copies of (almost) the same thing?
Message-ID: <497@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 90 01:33:44 GMT
References: <775@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <775@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
<I have a file that takes about 8 minutes to print because it creates
<a fancy background.  I need to make copies of the same thing with
<one line of text changed.
<
<It appears that I could do this with "copypage" and then "fill" the space for
<the text with white and then "show" the new text.
<It seems this would work until I run out of memory (which isn't a problem
<as I am talking about 5-15 copies for each run).
<My question is, did I miss the right way to do this?

Yep, you miss the boat.  Use the following:

	/#copies n def

Replace 'n' with the number of copies desired.  A good place to put this line
is right before the showpage.
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