Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!veritas!amdcad!sun!exodus!rberlin From: rberlin@birdland.sun.com (Rich Berlin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: OpenWindows PageView problems Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 19:57:12 GMT References: <90Nov12.134718est.18498@me.utoronto.ca> <90Nov15.002328est.21873@me.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems Lines: 41 In-reply-to: sun@me.utoronto.ca's message of 15 Nov 90 05:23:39 GMT sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes > I have experienced BOTH. I think if I tried to use a pipeline, then > all pages will be overlapping into one. If I first write the > PostScript output to a file and then use pageview to view it, the > pagination works fine. BTW, I am using psroff and psdit from Adobe > Systems to typeset my text. I can imagine why this behavior might occur, but as I don't have the source to pageview readily available, I haven't been able to check into it. If I find out anything concrete, I'll pass it along. > It is not logical to assume that pageview works only on one-page files > since under the "view" menu, it does have the options "first", "last", > "next" and "previous". My apologies. I reread my message and see that it might have been unclear, so I'm going to try again. I didn't mean to suggest that pageview only works on one-page documents. (For those of you who don't want to go back through old messages, I said) |> >I don't think 'showpage' is the problem. My experience with pageview |> >is that it works only on (a) one-page files, or (b) files which |> >conform to the Adobe Document Structuring conventions. It uses the |> >structuring comments to select a single page to be imaged; without the |> >comments, it never finds page boundaries so it overlays all the |> pages. What I was trying to say here is that pageview uses the structuring comments to find and separate out the different pages of a *multi-page* document. With a multi-page document which conforms to these conventions pageview behaves nicely. With a multi-page document which does not conform to the Structuring Conventions, pageview is not smart enough to determine where one page ends and the next begins; it overlays all of the pages on top of one another, producing the symptoms described. (a) above was trying to say that it doesn't matter whether single-page documents conform or not, because obviously a single page document is not going to display the symptom of unwanted overlaid pages. -- Rich