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Re: Displaying previous page and jumping to page N

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From: Michael Salmon
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 08:06
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In article <1992Oct27.163104.10875@cs.rochester.edu>, lubkin@cs.rochester.edu (Saul Lubkin) writes:
|> I am using ghostscript with the x11 driver, to preview documents
|> created with tex and dvips.
|> 
|> I imagine that there must be standard postscript commands, to
|> display the previous page; to jump ahead a few pages; and to
|> display page number N.  I'd be most grateful if someone would
|> email me the command lines for the ghostscript interpreter, that
|> do these things.

I guess that you have a better imagination than I. Going forward could
probably be done by redefining showpage but going backward isn't really
possible. To do so requires saving postscript code or page images, it
certainly isn't standard.

-- 

Michael Salmon

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