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In article <SMITH.92Sep2101529@minerva.harvard.edu>, smith@minerva.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) writes:
> barbehen@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Barbehenn) writes:
 
>> I have a postscript file which prints fine on our postscript
>> printer.  I am trying to include this file into a LaTeX
>> document as a figure.  I run dvips and try to print the new
>> postscript file. The printer aborts printing the new file.
 
> I have tried to do just this and failed.  I twiddled with
> ``showpage''s, tried to hack the PostScript header that dvips puts at
> the top of its output, and added save/grestore pairs before and after
> the dvips \special.  I tried \special, \epsf, and \psfig.  All failed.
> I gave up.  If there is a way to include dvips output within itself, I
> am unaware of it.

The showpage is not the problem. The problem is that PostScript
is ill-defined. A dvips page may be included through \special
into another dvips page, but on some printers part of that page
will be wiped out. Possibly worse things might happen. I
encountered this on an IBM LaserPrinter 10 and tracked the
problem down to the grestore at the end of the special include,
but couldn't determine more than that. The same dvips output
(with the include) printed fine on an HP LaserJet III and IIIsi.

-dh

Don Hosek                  
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Quixote Digital Typography 
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