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From: rdargahi@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Ross Dargahi)
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Subject: HELP: postering
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Date: 28 Jan 91 22:26:12 GMT
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I am writing a postscript application that attempts to poster when a scene
is too large to fit on a page. I tried using the algoritm described in the
cookbook, but I found that when there were many objects in the scene the
program failed to work. (It worked fine with one or two small objects, I also
limited by objects to text types although images can also be supported). I
think the reason I am having problems is that I am creating too large a
procedure for the loops in the algorithm. I am thinking of implementing the code
on the front end (the C code) and then keep send the objects to the printer
each time through the loop i.e. re-send the ps file with the appropriate
translations. This doesn't seem like such a great idea, does anyone have any
software solutions I might use

Thanks alot

Ross