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From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: selecting pages from PostScript
Message-ID: <1091@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 91 06:50:23 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.171621@madmax.Viewlogic.COM> <1991Jan12.194650.25292@starnet.uucp>
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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In article <1991Jan12.194650.25292@starnet.uucp> mzellers@starnet.UUCP (Mark Zellers) writes:
>In article <1991Jan10.171621@madmax.Viewlogic.COM> kenc@madmax.Viewlogic.COM (Kenstir) writes:

>>Is it possible for a filter to select only certain pages
>>from a PostScript document?  I have a huge document
>>(thanks, OSF/Motif) which I need to print in small chunks
>>so as not to offend the community at large by hogging
>>the printer.

>It depends entirely on whether the file you are working with is an
>Encapsulated PostScript file with the appropriate %%Page comments.  If

Slight mistake Mark, you meant "conformant with the document structuring
conventions postscript file".  EPS files are files for pictures for enclusion
in other documents, and hence don't have multiple pages - they're essentially
includable images.

psxlate in the psroff distribution can be modified quite simply to handle
this for conformant documents.
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