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Re: A routine to annotate PS files [message #69419 is a reply to message #69318]

Sat, 09 January 2010 07:30

David Fanning
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Ed Hyer writes:

> So here is a routine you can use to personalize your PS files and make
> them easier to search. The most obvious application is to attach the
> IDL calling stack in the postscript file, so that you can determine
> what script exactly made what file and when. However, this procedure
> is extensible, and I suspect people will find more uses for it.

This is an interesting idea, and ties in quite nicely with the
notion of provenance, which everyone in the data business is
paying a lot of attention to these days.

But doesn't this add an extra, blank, page of output to
every PostScript file? You can't just open the file up in
GhostView and see the results. You have to go to the 2nd
page. This takes some of the shine off it for me. :-(

Cheers,

David

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		Re: A routine to annotate PS files By: MarioIncandenza on Sun, 10 January 2010 09:57
		Re: A routine to annotate PS files By: R.G.Stockwell on Sat, 09 January 2010 14:44
		Re: A routine to annotate PS files By: David Fanning on Sat, 09 January 2010 08:46
		Re: A routine to annotate PS files By: MarioIncandenza on Sat, 09 January 2010 08:12
		Re: A routine to annotate PS files By: DavidPS on Thu, 14 January 2010 14:50
		Re: A routine to annotate PS files By: MarioIncandenza on Wed, 24 February 2010 11:04
		Re: A routine to annotate PS files By: David Fanning on Sat, 09 January 2010 07:30

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