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From: jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Pageview problem
Message-ID: <JJC.91Mar28210438@jclark.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 91 21:04:38 GMT
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Sender: jjc@jclark.uucp (James Clark)
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In-Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP's message of 26 Mar 91 19:58:55 GMT

In article <35@ftms.UUCP> brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

   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?

I have had several people report this problem to me.  Apparently
pageview gets confused by lines after the first line that begin with
`%!'.  Note that such lines are allowed by the Document Structuring
Conventions, so this is a bug in pageview.  If you compile groff
(actually just ps/ps.c) with -DBROKEN_SPOOLER, it will, amongst other
things, strip out any such lines.  In fact the Makefile explicitly
says to use -DBROKEN_SPOOLER if you're going to be using pageview.
(although it gave an incorrect reason for this in versions earlier
than 1.01).

James Clark
jjc@jclark.uucp
jjc@ai.mit.edu