Re: bug: postscript page numbering comments on blank pages

[Efraim Yawitz]

Did you try running Lout again?

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 address@hidden wrote:

> 
> Jeff,
> 
> I'm attempting to describe a bug in the postscript comments produced when 
> using the book format.
> 
> When using the book format, I have my document configured to start chapters 
> on odd pages.  This means that some chapters will have an absolutely blank 
> (no headers or anything) page at their end.
> 
> The problem is that, in the following %%Page comments (see below), grepped 
> from the lout-produced postscript, there are some "?" characters in the 
> comments.  This only happens on the blank pages at the end of chapters.
> 
> %%Page: i 1
> %%Page: ii 2
> %%Page: iii 3
> %%Page: iv 4
> %%Page: v 5
> %%Page: vi 6
> %%Page: vii 7
> %%Page: viii 8
> %%Page: ix 9
> %%Page: x 10
> %%Page: xi 11
> %%Page: xii 12
> %%Page: xiii 13
> %%Page: xiv 14
> %%Page: 1 15
> %%Page: 2 16
> %%Page: 3 17
> %%Page: ? 18
> %%Page: 5 19
> %%Page: 6 20
> %%Page: 7 21
> %%Page: 8 22
> %%Page: 9 23
> %%Page: ? 24
> %%Page: 11 25
> %%Page: 12 26
> 
> When I talk about pages numbers in this paragraph, I will refer to the left 
> hand number from the postscript comment, that is, the one (possibly) printed 
> on the page.  In my contents, pages ii, vi, and viii, xii, and xiv are all 
> completely blank and the postscript comments are correct.  In my document, 
> though, page 10 has incorrect postscript comments.  It is at the end of a 
> chapter.
> 
> This problem with the comments is a problem when I use products like Acrobat 
> distiller.  The pages with "?" in the page number comments are assigned 
> incorrect page numbers when using Acrobat reader.  I've been using sed to 
> correct the "?" marks to their correct values, thus correcting the problem.  
> It would, of course, be preferable to not have to perform this step.
> 
> So, to wrap up, a fix would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
>