Re: Replot in epslatex terminal

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 23 June 2005 02:31 pm, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
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> I'm a little surprised that "postscript eps" mode doesn't behave=20
> properly either --- it manages to avoid actually outputting %%Page DSCs,=
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> but still allows multiple /showpage instances in the same file.  I=20
> suspect that's a direct violation of the EPSF file definition.

The PostScript standard says:

  The showpage operator is permitted in EPS files because it is present
  in so many PostScript language files [...] The application importing
  the EPS file is responsible for redefining showpage [...] according
  to the following code segment:  /showpage {} def

As a result, you can have as many showpages in an EPSF file as you
like, because they are all redefined to null.  I don't see any specific
mention of %%Page in connection with EPSF files.



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