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From: csd35@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Pageview problem
Message-ID: <1039@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Mar 91 10:57:34 GMT
References: <10540@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <10540@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, by rberlin@birdlandEng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin):
> In article <35@ftms.UUCP>, brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
> |> Is pageview broke or an I missing something?

Pageview is broken.

> 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.

The bug with pageview is noted in the groff documentation.  Re-compile
groff with the '-DBROKENSPOOLER' flag switched on and groff will then
do its best to work around the problem.

This is from the groff docs:
# 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) or gets confused by included documents (the Sun
# pageview previewer has this problem), or if you are going to be
# sharing PostScript documents with others who might be running such a
# spooler or previewer.


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