Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca!pogo!richk From: richk@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Richard G. Knowles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Printing multiple copies Message-ID: <7754@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 16 Aug 89 21:46:06 GMT References: <4077@shlump.nac.dec.com> <147500003@upba> Reply-To: richk@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Richard G. Knowles) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR. Lines: 30 In article <147500003@upba> don@upba.UUCP writes: > If I am understanding you right, all you want to do is make several > copies of the file to print one right after the other without waiting > for the file to execute again, right? > > If so try putting this line in just before the showpage and see if > it works. > > 1 1 # { copypage } for > > # being one less than the number of copies that you want printed. Just defining #copies with an integer value of the number of copies is the best way to print multiple copies of the same bitmap. /#copies 10 def or userdict /#copies 10 put will print 10 duplicate pages whenever a showpage or copypage is encountered (however early versions of PS, pre version 38.0, do not use #copies with copypage). -------- Whatever I say is my fault and no one elses! ----------- Richard G. Knowles richk@pogo.WV.TEK.COM Graphics Printing and Imaging (503) 685-3860 Tektronix, Inc; D/S 63-356 Wilsonville, Or 97070 or just yell "Hey, Rich!"