bug: postscript page numbering comments on blank pages

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Jeff,

I'm attempting to describe a bug in the postscript comments produced when 
using the book format.

When using the book format, I have my document configured to start chapters 
on odd pages.  This means that some chapters will have an absolutely blank 
(no headers or anything) page at their end.

The problem is that, in the following %%Page comments (see below), grepped 
from the lout-produced postscript, there are some "?" characters in the 
comments.  This only happens on the blank pages at the end of chapters.

%%Page: i 1
%%Page: ii 2
%%Page: iii 3
%%Page: iv 4
%%Page: v 5
%%Page: vi 6
%%Page: vii 7
%%Page: viii 8
%%Page: ix 9
%%Page: x 10
%%Page: xi 11
%%Page: xii 12
%%Page: xiii 13
%%Page: xiv 14
%%Page: 1 15
%%Page: 2 16
%%Page: 3 17
%%Page: ? 18
%%Page: 5 19
%%Page: 6 20
%%Page: 7 21
%%Page: 8 22
%%Page: 9 23
%%Page: ? 24
%%Page: 11 25
%%Page: 12 26

When I talk about pages numbers in this paragraph, I will refer to the left 
hand number from the postscript comment, that is, the one (possibly) printed 
on the page.  In my contents, pages ii, vi, and viii, xii, and xiv are all 
completely blank and the postscript comments are correct.  In my document, 
though, page 10 has incorrect postscript comments.  It is at the end of a 
chapter.

This problem with the comments is a problem when I use products like Acrobat 
distiller.  The pages with "?" in the page number comments are assigned 
incorrect page numbers when using Acrobat reader.  I've been using sed to 
correct the "?" marks to their correct values, thus correcting the problem.  
It would, of course, be preferable to not have to perform this step.

So, to wrap up, a fix would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave