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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: defeating save/restore
Summary: can it be done?
Keywords: images, data compression,
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Date: 8 Mar 91 21:50:52 GMT
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Reply-To: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson )
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help..

I am trying to add a bit of my own postscript code 
to existing code which wraps each page in a save/restore pair

My problem is that I would like to pass a value (integer, string whatever)
from one page to the next..

%this obviously won't do it.
save
.
.
/myx 1 def
.
restore
.
.
save
.
.
myx 10 10 string cvrs show %for example
restore


Is there a way to store a value at some low level which is not
destroyed by restore?

I do not want to try to defeat the restore all together, just pass 1 value.

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-george            george@mech.seas.upenn.edu