Re: [9fans] mpictures and ms: text before is gone

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

Probable bug in lp? I did

	hget ... | jpg -9 | lp -dstdout -pp9bitpost > ... # this is a school
project
	hget | lp -dstdout -pjpgpost > ... # when I realized it existed

However, there is one GIF in my project and that didn't cause any
problems, so it makes me wonder...

The only postscript I know is the color changing code (which I learned
from your talk slides); this problem confused me.

On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:32 AM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> /n/sources/contrib/pietro/saturn.tar has an example of what I mean.
>>
>> 	troff -ms -mpictures tmac.colors saturnhd.ms history.ms
>
> cpu% tar xf /n/sources/contrib/pietro/saturn.tar
> cpu% for (i in *.ps) echo $i `{sed 1q $i}
> pioneer11.ps %!PS-Adobe-2.0 div 112 page header - research!pg
> saturnsymbol.ps %!PS-Adobe-2.0 div 112 page header - research!pg
> cpu%
>
> Each of these files begins with an lp-style banner page.
> That postscript code reinitializes the postscript interpreter,
> among other things, clearing the page.
>
> Things will work better if you generate the files without
> the banner pages.  Running
>
>  aux/p9bitpost file.bit > file.ps
>
> will produce postscript without the banner page.
>
> I'm quite confused as to how they could have gotten there.
>
> Russ
>
>