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Comment In The Print Job
DocumentID: 663190
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:49:36 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is sending postscript print jobs through a
Kodak Printserver. The print server is designed to route print
jobs to different printers in an efficient way by looking at the
size of each print job (in pages) and routing them accordingly.
The customer has WP 5.1 and using any postscript driver the only
comment that appears in the print job is the %PS-Adobe at the very
beginning. According to Adobe specifications, this is the minimum
amount of comments required. However, in order to work properly,
this (and several other) print server needs a %%Pages: (Page
Number) comment in the print job to efficiently route it. For
example, a six page print job would have a comment near the bottom
that specifies pages as follows:

%%Pages: 6 Solutions: Our postscript drivers for 5.1 and 6.0 do not provide this comment
while the Windows Postscript drivers do. A customer using
WordPerfect for Windows can use a Windows Postscript driver. If
the customer is using WordPerfect for Dos 5.1, then the following
PTR modifications will add this comment (Note: Only priority
technicians on the 900 lines should be modifying printer drivers):

1. Start up PTR and retrieve the PRS file. Press Enter to edit
the printer definition.
2. Highlight Printer Commands and press Enter.
3. Highlight "Reset at End of Print Job" and press Ctrl-Enter.
4. Edit the expression so that it looks like the following:

"%%Pages: "ASCII(PAGE)
BEGINTEXT
%%EOF
ENDTEXT
[4]

5. Exit PTR and save the PRS file.

Notes: The PAGE variable in WordPerfect drivers keeps track of the
current page number. The [4] at the end is the ASCII equivalent of
^D which is the Postscript end of file marker.

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