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From: earle@MAHENDO.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: psview bug
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Date: 7 Oct 88 23:32:42 GMT
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This is because apparently `psview' has no notion of currentpoint when it
enters the first page.  It blows up when it first tries to execute the `X'
definition (which is nearly almost immediate in `psdit' output).

If you insert a
	0 0 moveto
immediately below the
	%%Page: 1 1
(i.e., before the actual code)
then `psview' will work, and no ill effects are incurred.

Obviously, one would rather not have to edit the PostScript output file 
every time one wants to use `psview', so I reported it (rather casually, as
opposed to formally) to Steve Evans on the vendor exhibit floor at June Usenix
(I told you I reported it casually (^: ).  I've no idea what the fix is;
I hope Steve had an Elephantine memory enough so that someone could check into
it.

	- Greg Earle
	  Sun Los Angeles Consulting
	  earle@Sun.COM
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