earle@jplopto.UUCP (11/19/87)
Can someone from Adobe (or elsewhere) please tell me - Why on earth do the TranScript utilities (enscript, psroff, ptroff) pass the `-#n' option (for # of copies) on to the printer spooler, so the stupid thing can generate *n* times as many bytes to shove down the printer's throat, and take (at least, I presume) n times as long to print out all of the copies of the document? Why is this done instead of inserting a `/#copies n def' into the output stream, thus not only saving n times the download time, and all that added printing time, but presumably all the extra time saved by having the n pages printed bang-bang-bang while the page is still inside the printer's VM? I will never print out `n' copies of big documents (like Xlib or the GNU Emacs manual) via `-#' again, I'll dump the PostScript to a file and jam it in there myself! I'm absolutely stumped as to why this isn't done. I hope there's a logical explanation ... Greg Earle earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV S(*CENSORED*)t earle%jplopto@jpl-elroy.ARPA [aka:] Rockwell International earle%jplopto@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV Seal Beach, CA ...!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!jplopto!earle
roger@celtics.UUCP (11/19/87)
In article <4868@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes:
(Why do Adobe utilities use the spooler, instead of /copies, to print
multiple copies, forcing re-spooling and re-execution of the PostScript?)
Collation.
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