Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?) Message-ID: <4025@phri.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 11:41:22 GMT References: <5446@asylum.SF.CA.US> <34384@grapevine.uucp> <1131@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <506@jfcl.dec.com> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 22 In <506@jfcl.dec.com> frg@jfcl.nac.dec.com.UUCP (Fred R. Goldstein) writes: > Some PostScript documents are prepared "last page first", which works on > Apple LaserWriters and other printers that don't put the pages facing the > right way up. My feeling on this one is that *all* PS documents should be "first page first". It's the job of the spooler software to determine if page reversal is appropriate for a particular printer, and if so, do it during the spooling/printing process. We've got both face-up and face-down printers here; whichever order you put the pages in, the document is going to be wrong for at least some printers, so you might as well use the canonical ordering. And yes, I agree with Fred, if you absolutely, positively, must produce pre-page-reversed documents for distribution, at least there should be some easy way to tell what order the pages are in. Do the normal PS document formatting conventions provide some standardized %%line for this? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"