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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: duplicating a shape
Summary: RTFM
Keywords: duplicate image
Message-ID: <488@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 23:18:06 GMT
References: <14712@princeton.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
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sarantos@princeton.Princeton.EDU (Sarantos Kapidakis) writes:

>After drawing half of a page, I need to duplicate this shape,
>to the other half of the page.
>Is there any (portable, if possible) way to do that ?

Doesn't PostScript have a 'rotate' operator ? I'd assume they have a
'mirror' operator, IE, a rotation-through-third-dimension operator,
too, from the stuff I've seen.

>What about if I knew before I even start drawing the first half
>that I need to draw the picture twice?

As far as I know, PostScript makes a distinction between the *definition*
of an image - as constructed in a buffer - and the *printing* of an image,
as executed by 'showpage'. Why not build up an image and call it twice ?

>sarantos

-- richard


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