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In article <1992Nov18.210823.8944@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
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<If I want something (e.g., a logo) to appear on each page of a document
<then I could either write the code once for each page, or write a
<procedure (which goes into the document's prolog) which does the
<necessary and then invoke this procedure for every page. One benefit of
<this latter solution is a reduction in the size of the PS file.
<
<But what if the thing I want to appear on each page is an EPS file? Is
<it legal to have code like the following:
<
<	/foo
<	{
<		"some housekeeping before including EPS file"
<		... included EPS file here
<		"some housekeeping after including EPS file"
<	} def
<
<and then invoke foo multiple times in the document? I looked in the Red
<Book (the new one for PS Level 2) at the sections which deal with EPS
<files and couldn't find any discussion of this.
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<What I think would prevent the above from working is if the EPS file
<contained an image whose data was read directly from "currentfile" (as
<is often the case with images).

All of this should work, including images, though that I haven't done
personally.

The part that may get you is that if the included EPS file doesn't place
its definitions into a dictionary, you will run out of dictionary space.
You will have to increase the dictionary size in order to be able to
include the EPS file.

I do a few neat things with groff and I plan on posting a description of what
I do to get it to work.  I've combined the power of groff and the power of
PostScript and done some fancy things.  Soon I plan and providing examples
of what I have done.  Maybe someone else could use what I have done.
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