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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How do you make copies of (almost) the same thing?
Summary: fine
Message-ID: <1294@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 90 04:11:28 GMT
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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


I fail to see how you would run out of memory doing this.  My business
card printer, was originaly designed to use the laser for the total printing
process, and so does copypage.  If I don't let the job timeout, or don't
clear the page, and make a change and print it again, I get overprinting.
The biggie to watch for, is DON'T use translate, to do any of the positioning,
as you will not get the result you want (I made that mistake, and when this
double exposure stuff happens, I get 2 prints on the same page, but one
is shifted over by a small amount).

Cheers
Woody