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Article #1734Re: Control characters and such in PostScript
From: rsilverman
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 1990 18:47
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 1990 18:47
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In article <891@gug.UUCP>, jazz@gug.UUCP (Jeff Roberts) writes:
> In article <9613@shlump.nac.dec.com>, batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com (Ned Batchelder) writes:
>> 11x17 and 11x17tray are references to paper that is 11 inches by 17 inches.
>
> Yeah, I knew that, but why are they in my postscript? They aren't defined
> as macros above, and I don't see them in the red book. Are they something new
> or what?
>
Jeff,
The red book documents the standard PostScript language. Specific implementations
will generally contain many other operators, dictionaries, etc. peculiar to
themselves, such as the serverdict, statusdict, $printerdict, etc. in a
LaserWriter. Your 11x17tray is one of those -- it must exist on whatever
machine the output was intended for.
Richard Silverman
arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Systems Engineer
bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan.bitnet AM Computer Products
CIS: [72727,453] Southington, CT 06489
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!eagle!rsilverman From: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Control characters and such in PostScript Message-ID: <14410@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 28 Mar 90 18:47:21 GMT References: <890@gug.UUCP> <9613@shlump.nac.dec.com> <891@gug.UUCP> Lines: 22