Save to file noclip.sed and run it like so: $ sed -f noclip.sed stampa.ps > stampa-noclip.ps I suspect the root cause is an OBOE in the calculation of the ‘FooterHeight’ but that again(!) is idle speculation... i'll bow out of this thread now, but hope to see you post the nitty gritty debugging and resolution findings, "infuturo". :-D -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical) (not (via 'mailing-list))) => nil