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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: BeginSetup/EndSetup
Message-ID: <9059@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 May 89 17:05:13 GMT
Sender: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Stanford University
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Howdy!  I'm playing with the document structuring conventions, and I
want to be sure I understand something.  Is it true that, assuming a
well-structured PostScript file and a correctly behaving server, that
the following file

%!PS-Adobe-2.0...
...
%%BeginSetup
% we possibly change the CTM here, maybe even stash it away
% for later use
6 array currentmatrix print flush % this is the *last* thing in setup
%%EndSetup
%%Page 1 1
6 array currentmatrix print flush % this is the *first* thing in page
%%Trailer

will show two *different* matrices?  Is it safe to `save' the CTM
during the `Setup' so it can be used in the actual pages themselves?

Thanks!

-tom