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From: carl@sol1.gps.caltech.edu (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Change PS file to produce multiple copies
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.042256.20700@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 04:22:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.214828.16868@informix.com>, cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) writes:
>I want to operate on a saved PostScript listing using UNIX tools,
>with the aim of producing a new file that will print multiple
>copies of each page without re-imaging the page for each copy.
>
>We have a utility called "ditorder" that is supposed to do this
>(part of the Elan "eroff" package) but it barfs on PostScript files
>produced by Frame 2.0d on the NeXT.  We have the Transcript package
>from Adobe (it is distributed with the NeXT software package) but
>it doesn't seem to contain a utility to do this.  All it has is
>"psrev" which will select pages but not print them in multiples.
>
>Attached below find a fragment from the end of one page and the
>start of the next.  Surely there is some simple thing I can do
>in this area of a .ps file so that the just-imaged page will
>display <n> times without having to be re-drawn entirely! Like,
>just repeat the "showpage" line <n> times?

Just precede the "showpage" with one instance of "copypage" for each extra page
you want.  You might also want to get a copy of the red book and/or learn to
look at the items listed under the heading "SEE ALSO:" for a given item.
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