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From: west@widgit.enet.dec.com (Jim West (Stealth Contractor))
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Help with possible redef of showpage
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Date: 13 May 91 22:16:02 GMT
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  I'm teaching myself PostScript and have gone thru the 'Tutorial and
Cookbook' and have stumbled my way thru the LRM.

  Here's what I'm trying to accomplish :

    I need the capability to redefine showpage to put a label at the top
  and bottom of every page and to print a running page number on each page
  as well.

    This help is needed for a customer who works in a classified environment
  and needs to put the classification on each page.

    The PostScript files are being generated from various sources (such as
  screen captures, FrameMaker, and others).

    What we would like to do is take these PostScript files and run them
  thru a filter that would add our 'showpage' procedure and then pipe the
  output to the printer.

    Also the customer would like to have a banner and a trailer page printed
  as well (I figured I could just cat the header, file, and trailer to the
  printer).

  I've had success with a small example redefining showpage.  If that's all
there is to it then I think I'm starting to get the hang of PostScript (the
dict's are still quite fuzzy...).  The problem we have with the redefinition
of showpage is that we need each 'original' page scaled down so that there
is not any 'overwriting' of the label and the text from the page.

  Any help that anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated.  Also, what
other books would you all recommend for learning more about PostScript ?

  Much thanx,

					-=> Jim <=-



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