[Foomatic] Re: Usage of the /EndPage key with setpagedevice

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Nov 11 05:25:37 PST 2004


In article <4192FBDD.6000207 at gmx.net>, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmx.net>
writes:
> 
> Helge Blischke wrote:
> > Foomatic-rip uses a special /EndPage procedure to back 
> > page accounting.
> > 
> > As it is implemented currently, it completely defeats any
> > previously defined EndPage procedure (either defined by the
> > PostScript generating application/person or by a filter
> > executed ahead of foomatic-rip, e.g. the alternate pstops
> > filter).
> > 
> > To fix this, the foomatic /EndPage procedure should either
> > be prepended or appended (which option to choose requires
> > some more investigation) to the existing procedure.
> > 
> > Helge
> > 
> > PS: As I'm used to PostScript programming since more than a
> > decade, I'd offer to implement this modification if the
> > other maintainers/developers agree.
> 
> So I suggest that you can go ahead with implementing this, as me and 
> Grant are not the big PostScript gurus.
> 
> Thanks in asvance for your help.
> 
>     Till

I'm not really sure what should be counted:
- the sheets printed
or
- the (logical) pages printed
i.e. if one prints two logical pages on one sheet, should it be
counted as two pages or a single page?

Helge



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