[cl-typesetting-devel] peculiar behaviour

[Bob Hutchison]

Hi,

I emailed this a couple of days ago and have not seen it come up yet on 
the mailing list, so trying again.

Cheers,
Bob

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Bob Hutchison <hutch at recursive.ca>
> Date: September 27, 2004 3:54:41 PM EDT
> To: cl-typesetting-devel at common-lisp.net
> Cc: Bob Hutchison <hutch at recursive.ca>
> Subject: peculiar behaviour
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm starting to look into the cl-typesetting package and am 
> encountering some very strange behaviour.
>
> I tried this bit of lisp:
>
> (iter (for i from 1 to 30)
>   (tt::pprint-lisp-file
>     (pathname "/Users/hutch/cl/cl-typesetting/pprint.lisp")
>     (pathname (format nil "/tmp/pprint~A.pdf" i))
>     "pprint of pprint"))
>
> Which runs without reporting any problems.
>
> Check out the sizes of the files produced:
>
> 8363 Sep 27 15:45 pprint1.pdf
> 5186 Sep 27 15:45 pprint2.pdf
> 5282 Sep 27 15:45 pprint3.pdf
> 5460 Sep 27 15:45 pprint4.pdf
> 5681 Sep 27 15:45 pprint5.pdf
> 5794 Sep 27 15:45 pprint6.pdf
> 5925 Sep 27 15:45 pprint7.pdf
> 5991 Sep 27 15:45 pprint8.pdf
> 6053 Sep 27 15:45 pprint9.pdf
> 6193 Sep 27 15:45 pprint10.pdf
> 6253 Sep 27 15:45 pprint11.pdf
> 6405 Sep 27 15:45 pprint12.pdf
> 6443 Sep 27 15:45 pprint13.pdf
> 6564 Sep 27 15:45 pprint14.pdf
> 6663 Sep 27 15:45 pprint15.pdf
> 6836 Sep 27 15:45 pprint16.pdf
> 6889 Sep 27 15:45 pprint17.pdf
> 6983 Sep 27 15:45 pprint18.pdf
> 7092 Sep 27 15:45 pprint19.pdf
> 7172 Sep 27 15:45 pprint20.pdf
> 7360 Sep 27 15:46 pprint21.pdf
> 7374 Sep 27 15:46 pprint22.pdf
> 8265 Sep 27 15:46 pprint23.pdf
> 5030 Sep 27 15:46 pprint24.pdf
> 5219 Sep 27 15:46 pprint25.pdf
> 5321 Sep 27 15:46 pprint26.pdf
> 5580 Sep 27 15:46 pprint27.pdf
> 5708 Sep 27 15:46 pprint28.pdf
> 5835 Sep 27 15:46 pprint29.pdf
> 5975 Sep 27 15:46 pprint30.pdf
>
> A quick look at the pdf files shows that varying amounts of content is 
> missing from the beginning of the document.
>
> Is this something unique to my setup (LW for mac) or are other people 
> seeing this too? I first saw this when I was playing with the 
> kw-extensions.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>