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From: rberlin@birdlandEng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Pageview problem
Message-ID: <10540@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 91 03:58:28 GMT
References: <35@ftms.UUCP>
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In article <35@ftms.UUCP>, brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
|> 
|> Version OW 2.0
|> 
|> The pageview man page says "pageview renders a document, a page at a time,".
|> To that I have to say BullShit :-(
|> 
|> I have a couple of groff produced PostScript files, one containing three
|> pages and the other 26 pages.  Needless to say that when I bring up pageview
|> and load each file, ALL of the pages get displayed.  So much for each page at
|> a time.
|> 
|> Does anyone have a hint as to what pageview is looking for for pagebreaks?
|> Does it want %%Page:?  If so, the document has: %%Page: 1 1, etc.
|> 
|> Is pageview broke or an I missing something?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.
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This question might be a good candidate for the FAQ list.

Yes, PageView needs the structuring comments; I'd say there's a good
chance that groff is producing non-conforming PostScript.  The
"%%Page: 1 1" comment sounds correct, but pageview also requires some
of the other comments in order to work correctly, and that may be
causing the problem.  If the prolog sections aren't correctly
delimited, things are likely to break.  I don't think it cares about
things like %%DocumentFonts.

-- Rich