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  On "showpage" tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2014-08-03 12:16 -0400
    Re: On "showpage" ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2014-08-04 07:55 +0100
      Re: On "showpage" luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-04 00:30 -0700
      Re: On "showpage" tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2014-08-05 20:18 -0400

#1941 — On "showpage"

I'm confused. It used to be that gswin32c.exe needed to see a "showpage"
request at the end of any short little 1-page .ps file (valid, of course)
in order to provide a visual display of the graphic being created there.

Recently I've come up against .ps files in which that "showpage" needs to
be commented out (preceded by a "% ", or deleted entirely) if gswin32c is
to display the graphic -- with "showpage" present, gswin32c bombs out --
fires up its DOS box briefly, then closes it without ever showing any page.

Any idea what's going on? Or, what further info should I provide to help
narrow the problem down to manageable form? ... sample files? Thanks! 

Cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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#1942

In article <12vw4utmkiyba.17v5me66tth0k$.dlg@40tude.net>, 
mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net says...


> Any idea what's going on? Or, what further info should I provide to 
help
> narrow the problem down to manageable form? ... sample files

A simple sample file and a command line. For instance, are you 
specifying -dBATCH ?

Its not really going to be possible to help without an example file (a 
nice simple one please, not a 10's of megabytes, hundreds of pages, 
example...)

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#1943

On Monday, August 4, 2014 1:55:56 AM UTC-5, ken wrote:
> In article <12vw4utmkiyba.17v5me66tth0k$.dlg@40tude.net>, 
> 
> mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net says...
> 
> 
> > Any idea what's going on? Or, what further info should I provide to 
> help
> > narrow the problem down to manageable form? ... sample files
> 
> A simple sample file and a command line. For instance, are you 
> specifying -dBATCH ?
> 

I agree, it sounds like something in the way gs is being launched.
Are you launching the document from the file-browser, using the
file-type associations? If so, then look for the .pif file (extension
may have changed in the decade since I last played with this) that
is automatically generated when you launch a console application.
If you right-click on the pif and go to properties, you can find
any command-line options that are silently being passed to the program.

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#1948

On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 07:55:56 +0100, ken wrote:

> In article <12vw4utmkiyba.17v5me66tth0k$.dlg@40tude.net>, 
> mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net says...
> 
> 
>> Any idea what's going on? Or,  ... sample files?
> 
> ... not really ... possible to help without an example file (a 
> nice simple one please, not a 10's of megabytes, hundreds of pages, 
> example...)

Thanks, guys. In the course of seeking up a suitable example, I found that
all the candidates I thought I had -- with a "% showpage" at the end of the
file, accompanied by a %-comment wondering why the file wouldn't display
while the "showpage" was un-shielded by "%" -- now showed as well with or
without the showpage "in the flow". Puzzling. I have no idea what changed.

Let me look a little longer, perhaps I'll stumble across one again. If so
I'll either post it (if it's short enough) or give a link to it (and rest
assured: it's all hand-coded PS, no longer and no harder than what a PS
beginner can manage :-) ).

Cheers, and thanks in advance if I do find one to offer here, -- tlvp


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