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From: lippold@cerl.uiuc.edu (Lippold Haken)
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Subject: PostScript killbu and killbn problems
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Date: 30 Nov 90 21:09:14 GMT
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I am using PostScript PicComments in my program.  In the October 1990 issue
of DEVELOP, PostScript code is given to replace the bu and bn routines with
nil routines; this solves many of my basic problems using PostScript mixed
with QuickDraw -- but it has introduced a new problem.

When I use the killbu/killbn routines from DEVELOP, all the downloaded fonts
are "forgotten" by the laser printer at the end of the page.  I have not been
able to get around this problem.  Has anyone else experienced this -- and if
so, how did you get around it?

(I ended up making a killcp routine which makes cp call only "copypage"
and a killop routine which makes op call only "erasepage"... but thats
not a good solution.)

Lippold Haken

Please respond via E-mail to:
l-haken@uiuc.edu  (that's a lower case L before the dash)