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From: stevec@fornax.UUCP (Steve Cumming)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Page selection wanted
Summary: Well, actually, use psrv or psrev
Message-ID: <1004@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 18:42:33 GMT
References: <1022@n8emr.UUCP> <1267@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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In article <1267@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
> In article <1022@n8emr.UUCP>, lwv@n8emr (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>  `
>  `What I am hoping to find is some way to indicate to the printer that I only
>  `want to print pages m-n of a full postscript file that I am passing.
> 
> You could try to redefine showpage such that it only prints the selected
> pages.
>  
>	[correct solution omitted]

But Larry indicated that he was using Transcript software.
In that case, the psrv and psrev utilities are available,
and they do page selection.

Simple changes to the Adpbe-supplied shell script psroff
will accomodate you.

Steve
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