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
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Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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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?
-- 
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