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Re: Postscript output cleanups (Was: gEDA: Slightly improved gschem postscript output)

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 09:39 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 1) Change the current style of printing to include a prolog read from a
> > file on the disk and inserted into the output script.  This prolog would
> > contain the needed drawing code subroutines. The output postscript code
> > will contain a comment indicating the location on disk that the prolog
> > came from so that other Poscript hackers know where to look to insert
> > black magic postscript additions. :-)
> 
> Be careful not to suddenly require postscript level 2 or 3!  We ran
> into this in PCB.  I think it's safe to put function defs in the
> prologs, but not any commands that initialize the graphics state.

Thanks, I will be careful.

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                              Mike Jarabek        
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