Thanks to all for your help.

The program is a little more complicated than shown in my question. When I stated the canvas is long, it can be really long, so in actuality I have coded 2 canvases working together. One acts as a "header" and sits on top of the "data" canvas, allowing the "data" canvas to be scrolled vertically alone, or both canvases to be scrolled horizontally together (think spreadsheets).

I have already looped to break the "data" canvas into paper-sized chunks (resulting in multiple postscript files), but am still working on splicing the "header" part onto each "data" part and then combining all files into 1 file.

I think the pstops will help the most, not in itself, but as an example. I am only able use the standard perl installation (no PDF::API2) and it must be runnable on *nix and Windows.

I guess I really need to learn how to hack postscript.

In reply to Re: multi-page from Tk::Canvas by cort
in thread multi-page from Tk::Canvas by cort

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