Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert
From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Encapsulated PS format for WordPerfect
Summary: Yes, BoundingBox is needed.
Message-ID: <1989Jul22.160819.15108@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 22 Jul 89 16:08:19 GMT
References: <1989Jul20.122406.5912@cs.dal.ca> <1917@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1917@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal) writes:
>
>On the other hand, I have had extremely good luck in getting WP 5.0 to read
>in many postscript files that were not EPS.  The trick is to add the
>
>%%BoundingBox n1 n2 n3 n4
>
>line, where n1..n4 indicate the box corners.  You may have to play with the
>numbers before you get it right.  If the numbers are wrong, you may see
>nothing in the box.
>
>WP strips off the "showpage" line but otherwise takes in the file intact.
>It definitely looks for the %%BoundingBox line.

Yes. the BB statement is part of the specification and is definitely
required.  I have included it in all of the files I have tested.

I repeat my request, could someone please send me some code that works?
I have included all the lines specified in the standard.


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Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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