Document Structuring Conventions - Example

Example

A DSC-conforming document (this one generated by dvips) might begin:

%!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software %%Title: texput.dvi %%Pages: 1 %%PageOrder: Ascend %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792 %%DocumentPaperSizes: Letter %%EndComments

which has the following meaning:

• %!PS-Adobe-2.0 marks the document as conforming to version 2.0 of the DSC
• %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software identifies the PostScript-producing program as dvips 5.95a
• %%Title: texput.dvi identifies the document title
• %%Pages: 1 tells the document manager that the document consists of one page
• %%PageOrder: Ascend tells the document manager that pages are independent (i.e., not in Special ordering) and appear in ascending order in the document; in this example, since the document only consists of one page, this information is not usually relevant, but will be needed if additional pages are to be inserted by a document manager
• %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792 tells the document manager the coordinates, measured in PostScript points, of the bounding box for all the pages taken together; 0 0 612 792 is the coordinates of a US Letter–sized page
• %%DocumentPaperSizes: Letter tells the document manager what kind of paper sizes are used in the whole document; in this example only one size is used, namely the US Letter size
• %%EndComments marks the end of the prolog