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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Getting a psrev that works.
Message-ID: <1413@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 19 Apr 91 03:24:59 GMT
References: <9104151752.AA13235@stork.cs.rochester.edu>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <9104151752.AA13235@stork.cs.rochester.edu> bukys@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>We're running some old version of Transcript on our Suns, licensed from
>Adobe.  Most things in it seem dated around 1987.  I think it's version 2.1.

>The psrev program that is part of this package is good at mangling files
>into unprintability.  Embedded figures are good at causing this problem.
>The page reversal code just picks the wrong points for breaking up the
>document.  It doesn't look for %%BeginDocument/%%EndDocument comments.

psxlate (part of psroff 2.0 and psroff 3.0) purports to reverse pages.
(along with several other page flipping algorithms and n-up)
The only things it looks at are %!PS-Adobe-, %%Page:, and %%Trailer.
If you could mail me a description of what other headers it should be
looking at and what to do with them, maybe I can get it to it it
properly for you.  Alternately, you can take the psxlate from psroff 3.0 and
fix it and mail me the changes.  Psroff 3.0 should be coming out on
comp.sources.unix about now.

>(The other eye is already black from the poor
>PostScript generated by many applications.)

You can hardly blame Postscript or Adobe for this.  Lots of people
write pretty bad C code too...  Though, a PD Postscript server would
really help.
-- 
Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Internet: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
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psroff-request@eci386 or Canada 416-832-0541.  Psroff 3.0 in c.s.u soon!