Re: Show on several pages

From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Show on several pages
Date	2012-06-25 09:33 +0200
Organization	Decebal Computing
Message-ID	<87395jlual.fsf@Compaq.site> (permalink)
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Op maandag 25 jun 2012 08:47 CEST schreef ken@spamcop.net:

> In article <87bok8kx3e.fsf@Compaq.site>, Cecil@decebal.nl says...
>
>> But the text:
>> Line to show on page one and two
>> is only shown on the first page. Is what I want not possible, or am I
>> doing something wrong?
>
> save only saves the graphics state (colour font, linewidth etc), it 
> doesn't save any marks on the page. showpage implicitly erases the new
> page, so the new page is blank.
>
> If you want to repeat a 'show' operation you actually need to repeat the
> sequence of marking operators.
>
> There are a number of ways of doing this, the simplest being to just
> repeat the code. If you explain what it is you need to achieve I could 
> offer more concrete advice.

I want to 'revel' something more every page. I think that I should
make a function that makes page one and call that from page two, which
is also a function, which is called from page three, …

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Show on several pages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-25 03:18 +0200
  Re: Show on several pages ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-06-25 07:47 +0100
    Re: Show on several pages gernot.hoffmann@hs-emden-leer.de - 2012-06-24 23:53 -0700
      Re: Show on several pages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-25 09:30 +0200
        Re: Show on several pages ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-06-25 16:39 +0100
          Re: Show on several pages Peter Davis <Peter.Davis@mathworks.com> - 2012-06-25 11:48 -0400
            Re: Show on several pages gernot.hoffmann@hs-emden-leer.de - 2012-06-25 09:08 -0700
          Re: Show on several pages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-25 20:13 +0200
      Re: Show on several pages Peter Davis <Peter.Davis@mathworks.com> - 2012-06-25 09:02 -0400
    Re: Show on several pages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-06-25 09:33 +0200
      Re: Show on several pages ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2012-06-25 16:40 +0100
      Re: Show on several pages luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-25 20:58 -0700
    Re: Show on several pages Peter Davis <Peter.Davis@mathworks.com> - 2012-06-25 09:00 -0400
  Re: Show on several pages Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-06-25 17:34 +0200

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