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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Pageview problem
Message-ID: <1564@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 91 19:42:59 GMT
References: <35@ftms.UUCP> <JJC.91Mar28210438@jclark.UUCP> <10732@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <10732@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) writes:
<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.)

Answer me this.  Going under the assumption that included PostScript files
are not supposed to be anything other than a single page, if the new version
of pageview pays attention to the comments of the included PostScript file,
might it only display the included part of the PostScript and not the whole
page?  Then this would be a bug in the opposite direction, i.e., incomplete
displaying of the page.

As I was told by the person maintaining the pageview code, when it runs
across a %! inside of the document, it is supposed to ignore all comments
until the %%Trailor.  This will make it display the included document and
the main page and then stop at the main document's %%Page.  If I understand
what you are saying, the new pageview may stop at a %%Page inside of the
included document, even if it is the single page that it should be.  Therefore
it would not display the main document's information for that page.

In my case, the groff document put in a %! when there wasn't an included
document, so the display was out-of-sync, and I believe rightly so.

Now I am getting confused.  What is the new version of pageview going to do?
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