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Re: Why does this lose?

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From: Miles Bader
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1988 16:26
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louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
> I just had this very same problem with a dvi to postscript converter that I
> hacked up.  The problem is that the show for "Page 2" no longer has 
> a current font!
> 
> Note that you do the setfont, followed by a restore, which zaps your current
> font.  Invalidaccess?  Not really as helpfull (as, say, nocurrnetfont or 
> something).  This is as weird one.  Happend to me the same way; first page
> works fine, and then..

Some print spoolers reverse the pages, and along the way, put a
save-restore pair around each one.  So if you're following the PS
formatting conventions, it's a good idea to treat each page as if
there is no state carried over from the previous page.

-Miles
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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
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Subject: Re: Why does this lose?
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Date: 5 Sep 88 16:26:36 GMT
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