CompuServe Messages

(Sorry about the lapse, Brad – office has been a major zoo this week!) I see that Bruce knows the trick, too. The secret basically revolves around the fact that most DTP applications are relatively "well-behaved" about not carrying-over variable conditions from page to page. Variables (setgrays, findfonts, setfonts, et al) are either globally set for the document or completely initialized to a predictable value for each page. This, and the "recommended" use of the "&&Page" markers make it relatively easy to find the beginnings and endings of pages in direct PostScript code. My favorite way to do this is to run Lasertalk and operate in trace mode, setting the start points and the stop sign on the fly. This makes it unnecessary to modify any PostScript ASCII directly. It really should be easy enough to write a "quick and dirty" BASIC program to do this, as well. (Sounds like something I can do in my spare time – which puts completion sometime around 2014.<g>) …mm