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

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Nov 11 12:58:05 PST 2004


Helge Blischke wrote:
> 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

The sheets should be counted, as this facility is for accounting of 
printing expenses.

    Till



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