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From: pete@TIRS.oz.au (Peter Bartel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Psroff meets Pageview.
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.005229.18689@TIRS.oz.au>
Date: 8 Feb 91 00:52:29 GMT
References: <1272@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Organization: International Railroad Systems (Electronics)
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From article <1272@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>, by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca 
(Chris Lewis):
> One of the people using psroff is using X11 pageview to
> view the Postscript that psroff generates, and is encountering
> a problem which someone may be able to solve.  Namely, each
> page overlaps rather than replaces the previous page.
> (eg: no erase is occuring of the previous page)
... 
> Does anybody know why pageview could be doing this?  Any suggestions
> that might solve the problem?

An extract from the groff 1.0 Makefile might shed a little light:
# Include -DBROKEN_SPOOLER in CPPDEFINES if you have a PostScript
# spooler or previewer that is unable to cope with anything after
# %%EndProlog and before the first page (old versions of TranScript
# have this problem and so does the Sun pageview previewer) or gets
# confused by included documents, or if you are going to be sharing
# PostScript documents with others who might be running such a spooler
# or previewer.

I played around with the %%EndProlog line withoug success. But then, I
don't know much about postscript.
> 
> Thanks,
No worries. Hope this points you in the right direction.
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