Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: DPS showpage Message-ID: Date: 3 Jan 90 02:07:47 GMT References: <39569@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Followup-To: comp.sys.next Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 12 In-reply-to: woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov's message of 2 Jan 90 21:00:17 GMT In article <39569@ames.arc.nasa.gov> woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAC) writes: >According to the PostScript reference manual, "showpage >then performs the equivalent of erasepage and initgraphics >in preparation for the next page." This doesn't seem to >happen on a NeXT. Is this a feature? Well, the fact that showpage is a no-op on the screen is documented online, but nowhere does it say that it doesn't perform an initmatrix on the printer, so *that* is a bug. A rather surprising one, too. -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)