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Re: PostScript output

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From: Olav Kvern
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:29
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maxdunn--

Not exactly. There are various entry points into InDesign's PostScript output stream where you can redefine procedures or create your own. To get your PostScript into the stream, you create files with specific names at specific locations on your system. You could use scripting to write these files (they're just text), but you certainly wouldn't have to.

But I don't know of a way to insert the code at an arbitrary point in the file--say, after page 5. In fact, the only entry point I remember is the last one--the one that comes after the InDesign dictionary, but before any page information.

Next, tray commands are usually inside an exitserver loop--again, you might not be able to do this at an arbitrary point in the PostScript output stream.

So...whether this will work or not depends on what you're trying to do, and where.

Thanks,

Ole
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