How to `pass through' PostScript code BEFORE first page

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From: Berthold K.P. Horn
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 13:10

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In MS Windows, I want to `pass through' some code that should hold for the
whole PostScript printing job (specifically, I am trying to override the
default screening function, which on many printers is not very good).

Now I can't use the PASSTHROUGH Escape until after the STARTDOC escape, and
output inserted then is within the save/restore context of the first page.
So I have to insert this code again and again after every NEWFRAME Escape.
I don't suppose there is a way to insert code BEFORE the first page, so
that it remains in place for the whole print job?

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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