StartJob (page device)

This page applies to Harlequin v13.1r0 and later; both Harlequin Core and Harlequin MultiRIP

A dictionary of procedures, each of which is executed (in an arbitrary order) immediately after the job starts. The contents of the dictionary provided for this key in the operand dictionary of setpagedevice is merged with the one in the page device so additional procedures can be added to this hook.

The precise timing is that this hook is run before the job is actually run, but after the file is opened and initialized as currentfile. It is called at the job’s save level.

You can use StartJob with setstdio to substitute another stream for the current job, and process the current job in some manner. You can use StartJob to copy a job to disk.

See also Using the job name from StartJob and EndJob hooks for hints on finding the job name from a StartJob hook.

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