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Re: bug: postscript page numbering comments on blank pages
From: |
Efraim Yawitz |
Subject: |
Re: bug: postscript page numbering comments on blank pages |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:36:55 +0300 (IDT) |
Did you try running Lout again?
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 address@hidden wrote:
>
> 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
>
>