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From: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Pageview problem
Message-ID: <10732@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 91 22:29:36 GMT
References: <35@ftms.UUCP> <JJC.91Mar28210438@jclark.UUCP>
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Guilty as charged.  There was a bug in the V2 pageview which caused it
to fail when loading documents with included PostScript documents (a
line beginning with %!) inside of them... This is fixed in the latest
version. (Don't ask me when you can get it.)


In article <JJC.91Mar28210438@jclark.UUCP>, jjc@jclark.UUCP (James Clark) writes:
|> 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

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