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UWE STEINMANN 2003Uwe SteinmannApril 28, 2003;
NAMEPS_begin_page — Start a new page
SYNOPSIS
#include <pslib.h>
void PS_begin_page(PSDoc *psdoc, float width, float height)
DESCRIPTION
Starts a new page. Though the parameters width and height
imply a different page size for each page, this is not
possible in PostScript. The first call of
PS_begin_page(3) will set the page size
for the whole document. Consecutive calls will have no
effect, except for creating a new page. The situation is
different if you indent to convert the PostScript docu‐
ment into PDF. This function places pdfmarks into the
document which can set the size for each page indivi‐
ually. The resulting PDF document will have different page sizes.
Each page is encapsulated into save/restore. This means, that most
of the settings made on one page will not be retained on
the next page.
If there is up to the first call of PS_begin_page(3) no call of
PS_findfont(3), then the header of the PostScript document
will be output and the bounding box will be set to the
size of the first page. If PS_findfont(3) was called
before the header has been output already, the document
will not have a valid bounding box. In order to prevent
this, one should set the info field 'BoundingBox' and
possibly `Orientation' before any PS_findfont(3) or
PS_begin_page(3) calls.
SEE ALSOPS_end_page(3), PS_findfont(3), PS_set_info(3)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx.
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