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

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Nov 18 18:55:05 PST 2004


This is fixed now in the stable branch of the Foomatic CVS or in

http://www.linuxprinting.org/download.cgi?filename=foomatic-rip&show=0

Thabks for your report and patch, Helge.

    Till


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.



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