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In <1473@shiva.systemware.de> stefan@shiva.systemware.de (Stefan Stapelberg) writes:
>My troff->postscript converter produces the following code to compensate
>for the lower boundary of the imageable area (lly) and to set a variable
>`pgtop' (top of page), which will be used (in procedure `Y') to compute
>the absolute vertical position from a given distance to the TOP.

>	clippath pathbbox pop pop exch pop 0 exch translate
>	clippath pathbbox /pgtop exch def pop pop pop
>	/Y { pgtop exch sub currentpoint pop exch moveto } bind def

>IMHO this violates the rules of page independence, since the boundaries
>of the imageable area don't change if this output is scaled down and
>included within another document. Is this correct?

Looks like tpscript code. When I wrote it (a long long time ago) there
were no guidelines for page independance, and it was long before EPS.
But in any case, programs that generate multi-page documents are much
more likely to want to include other documents within them, than to
be included themselves. Even enough independance for page-reversal
programs etc is very difficult. Maybe in the next release (not soon)
I'll add an option for EPS generation if only a single page is produced.

			Regards,

				- Stephen Frede

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