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From: skdutta@cs.tamu.edu (Saumen K Dutta)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript page counter?
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Date: 31 Jul 90 08:02:25 GMT
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in Article <226@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us
(Glenn Reid) writes:
>
>In five years of looking at PostScript files I have never seen a control-L
>character embedded in a file, nor should they be.  What application or
>system do you use such that a ^L is "usually used for pagebreak," out
>of curiosity?
>
>I can't say I'd recommend that technique, although I guess it can't hurt
>to look for ^L.
>

Well, I saw them in some of the postscript outputs from dvips
translator. It was just at the place where you expect it to
be! I am not very sure whether it was inherited from the 
dvi file which was translated to the postscript file. Anyway
I am enclosing here some part of the file for your info. 

%!
%%Dimensions: 0 0 612 792
%%Title: dvips test
%%CreationDate: Tue Jul 31 01:48:38 1990
%%Creator: skdutta and [TeX82 DVI Translator Version 2.10b for
PostScri-
%-pt [Apple LaserWriter laser printer]
%%Pages: (atend)
%%BugHistory: Incorporates Allan Hetzel's 31-Oct-85 DARPA LASER-LOVERS
-
%-PS Version 23.0 X-on/X-off bug workaround
%%EndComments
%%EndProlog

.......
......
^L%%Page: 2 2

.......
.....
^L%%Page: 3 3

......
....
etc.


The ^L has been retyped as caret-L just to avoid pagebreak in
this :->


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