Why on earth does TranScript pass the # of copies on to the spooler?!?

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2 total messages Started by earle Thu, 19 Nov 1987 09:32

#6729

Author: earle
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1987 09:32

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Can someone from Adobe (or elsewhere) please tell me - Why on earth do the
TranScript utilities (enscript, psroff, ptroff) pass the `-#n' option (for
# of copies) on to the printer spooler, so the stupid thing can generate
*n* times as many bytes to shove down the printer's throat, and take (at
least, I presume) n times as long to print out all of the copies of the
document?  Why is this done instead of inserting a `/#copies n def' into
the output stream, thus not only saving n times the download time, and all that
added printing time, but presumably all the extra time saved by having the
n pages printed bang-bang-bang while the page is still inside the printer's VM?
I will never print out `n' copies of big documents (like Xlib or the GNU
Emacs manual) via `-#' again, I'll dump the PostScript to a file and jam it
in there myself!

I'm absolutely stumped as to why this isn't done.  I hope there's a logical
explanation ...

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Re: Why on earth does TranScript pass the # of copies on to the spooler?!?

#6730

Author: roger
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1987 16:00

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In article <4868@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes:
(Why do Adobe utilities use the spooler, instead of /copies, to print
multiple copies, forcing re-spooling and re-execution of the PostScript?)

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