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cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
> > Adobe's TranScript package includes a program called "psrev"...
> >...Has anyone written a freely available PostScript page reverser?

> Frustrating, isn't it?  I wrote a page reverser specifically
> for Microsoft Word -- and there's the rub.  Unless you are capable
> of interpreting PostScript, you can't write a PostScript page
> reverse which is generally useful ...

Not true.  You can write a page-reverser that will work for the output of
any application that generates output conforming to the Document Struc-
turing Conventions.  (Bob's article alluded to "conformant" apps.)  In
fact, page-reversal is one of the reasons those conventions exist! More-
over, the conventions contain constraints which guarantee that you don't
have to interpret the PostScript to figure out how to reverse it.  It's
nothing more than a simple copying-about of chunks of text...a simple one
could be written in an hour or so, if you didn't mind some wasted motion.

This is just one more reason to insist that the PostScript-generating
apps you buy (or write) conform to the conventions.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...but Meatball doesn't work that way!