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Re: Printing multiple copies of a PS file.

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From: Adam Fox
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 1990 15:34
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In article <6000@castle.ed.ac.uk>, elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) writes:
> How can a large Postscript file be altered to print multiples copies of itself
> so that it does not have to be sent to the print a number of times.
> 

I've had success by using the following statement:

/#copies x def

where x is the number of copies.

I put this at the begining of the file, right after the standard header.

Give it a try.

-- Adam Fox
adamfox@super.org
adamfox@metropolis.super.org
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From: adamfox@super.ORG (Adam Fox)
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Subject: Re: Printing multiple copies of a PS file.
Summary: a simple one-line command to print multiple copies
Message-ID: <32431@metropolis.super.ORG>
Date: 30 Aug 90 15:34:58 GMT
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