Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Why does this lose? Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 88 16:26:36 GMT References: , <2960@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: <2960@umd5.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > I just had this very same problem with a dvi to postscript converter that I > hacked up. The problem is that the show for "Page 2" no longer has > a current font! > > Note that you do the setfont, followed by a restore, which zaps your current > font. Invalidaccess? Not really as helpfull (as, say, nocurrnetfont or > something). This is as weird one. Happend to me the same way; first page > works fine, and then.. Some print spoolers reverse the pages, and along the way, put a save-restore pair around each one. So if you're following the PS formatting conventions, it's a good idea to treat each page as if there is no state carried over from the previous page. -Miles