<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On May 27, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Ulrich Windl wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 26 May 2009 at 8:58, Michael Sweet wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[STR Closed w/o Resolution]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nothing we can do about it - the printer driver would need to monitor the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">printer and only output PAGE: messages for confirmed pages. The generic<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">PostScript path is not able to do this...<br></blockquote><br>Mike,<br><br>It's some time ago since I worked interactively with PostSCript, but wasn't it ^T <br>(Control+T) to let the printer report it's status?</div></blockquote><div><br></div>That doesn't work on all interfaces, unfortunately.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div> ALso one could redefine the <br>showpage or copypage operators to "print back" information to the driver to sync <br>page numbers.</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>...<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While we can (and often do) override showpage, getting the information back from the printer is often not possible.</div></div><div><br></div><div>
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