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Re: Problems with restore (and also dictionaries)

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From: L. Peter Deutsch
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:32
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Re <9209110403.AA02109@cookie-crisp>
<1992Sep10.172611.25400@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>:

> Another (percieved) mis-feature of Ghostscript is the way it will
> automatically expand dictionaries.  This recently lead to much head
> scratching, since we could preview the file, but it would not print.
> Is there a way of stopping the dictionaries being expanded?

Set dict_auto_expand (in idict.c) to 0.

In a future release, there will be a way to turn the Level 2 features
(such as automatic dictionary expansion) on and off dynamically.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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Subject: Re: Problems with restore (and also dictionaries)
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