StartPainting (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) as the first painting operator on a page is encountered. 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.

This is sometimes more handy to use than BeginPage, as there may be several invocations of BeginPage as a page starts due to several calls to setpagedevice. OTOH, on a blank page, this will never be called.

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