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Article #7985Re: duplicating a shape
From: Richard Childers
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1989 23:18
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1989 23:18
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sarantos@princeton.Princeton.EDU (Sarantos Kapidakis) writes:
>After drawing half of a page, I need to duplicate this shape,
>to the other half of the page.
>Is there any (portable, if possible) way to do that ?
Doesn't PostScript have a 'rotate' operator ? I'd assume they have a
'mirror' operator, IE, a rotation-through-third-dimension operator,
too, from the stuff I've seen.
>What about if I knew before I even start drawing the first half
>that I need to draw the picture twice?
As far as I know, PostScript makes a distinction between the *definition*
of an image - as constructed in a buffer - and the *printing* of an image,
as executed by 'showpage'. Why not build up an image and call it twice ?
>sarantos
-- richard
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