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Subject:Re: Postscript files From:Margaret Gerard <margaret -at- TOSHIBA -dot- TIC -dot- OZ -dot- AU> Date:Thu, 9 Sep 1993 10:05:52 EST
<I want to make a major revision to our copyright and trademarks
statements which
<are postscript files included in Framemaker files (documents).
<The copyright file contains lines e.g.
<8.36 157.11 moveto 0.45 0 (All rights reserved. No part of this work covered
by
<copyright) ashow
<The words inside the brackets are part of the actual copyright statement and
the
<rest of the stuff on the line controls the placement and format of this text.
<Can anybody tell me what the numerics represent; what moveto and ashow mean?
<Would this be documented in an Adobe manual? We don't have any.
<Is there an Email address for queries to Adobe similar to comments -at- frame -dot- com
or
<a newsgroup?
<Thanks for your help,
<Margaret Gerard, Email: margaret -at- toshiba -dot- tic -dot- oz -dot- au Fax: 61
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<4187791/4277405
<Toshiba International Corporation
<Sydney
<Australia
Abject apologies for wasting your time with the above request. We do have
Postscript manuals - secreted in the filing cabinet of an engineer on leave!
Reading them left me feeling pretty thickheaded but it seems that "moveto"
causes the string within the brackets to be placed on the page at a location
defined by the x,y coordinates which precede the moveto command. "ashow" causes
the string to be printed with character spacing defined by the x,y coordinates
which follow the moveto command but precede the string.