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sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes

> I have experienced BOTH. I think if I tried to use a pipeline, then
> all pages will be overlapping into one. If I first write the
> PostScript output to a file and then use pageview to view it, the
> pagination works fine. BTW, I am using psroff and psdit from Adobe
> Systems to typeset my text.

I can imagine why this behavior might occur, but as I don't have the
source to pageview readily available, I haven't been able to check
into it.  If I find out anything concrete, I'll pass it along.

> It is not logical to assume that pageview works only on one-page files
> since under the "view" menu, it does have the options "first", "last",
> "next" and "previous".

My apologies. I reread my message and see that it might have been
unclear, so I'm going to try again.  I didn't mean to suggest that
pageview only works on one-page documents.  (For those of you who
don't want to go back through old messages, I said)

|> >I don't think 'showpage' is the problem.  My experience with pageview
|> >is that it works only on (a) one-page files, or (b) files which
|> >conform to the Adobe Document Structuring conventions.  It uses the
|> >structuring comments to select a single page to be imaged; without the
|> >comments, it never finds page boundaries so it overlays all the
|> pages.

What I was trying to say here is that pageview uses the structuring
comments to find and separate out the different pages of a
*multi-page* document.  With a multi-page document which conforms to
these conventions pageview behaves nicely.  With a multi-page document
which does not conform to the Structuring Conventions, pageview is not
smart enough to determine where one page ends and the next begins; it
overlays all of the pages on top of one another, producing the
symptoms described.  (a) above was trying to say that it doesn't
matter whether single-page documents conform or not, because obviously
a single page document is not going to display the symptom of unwanted
overlaid pages.

-- Rich