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From: simpson@minotaur.uucp (Scott Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Need help rotating address label; big top & left margins
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Date: 24 Jul 88 20:34:29 GMT
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>In article <1654@eneevax.UUCP> alex@eneevax.UUCP (James Alexander) writes:
>   Your problem is not with postscript, but rather with TeX.  As the
>   TeXbook explains, TeX discards any spacing commands before something is
>   printed on a page.  To get around it, you trick TeX like you have done
>   or by an empty \line, or even { }, before your spacing commands.  Maybe
>   even \noindent will work (you have to force TeX out of vertical mode).

Try \vglue.  \vglue won't throw away the space at the top of a page.
See The TeXbook.
	Scott Simpson
	TRW Space and Defense Sector
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