Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!harlqn!jcgs From: jcgs@wundt.harlqn.uucp (John Sturdy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: page bounding boxes in EPSF Message-ID: Date: 25 Jul 89 16:32:49 GMT Sender: news@harlqn.UUCP Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, England Lines: 22 I am working on some utilities that produce EPSF output, and noticed a little gap in the EPSF spec. You can specify per-document font lists and BoundingBoxes, and per-page fonts, but not per-page BoundingBoxes - which is a pity if you want to pick out one page (using psrev or equivalent) and include it as an ``illustration'' in another document, or if you want to paste the logical pages of a document together in a fancy way onto the real pages. Has anybody done something about this? If there is no de facto standard (and nothing from Adobe about it) I'll use the ``obvious'' solution of inventing a new comment "%%PageBoundingBox n n n n" to go at the start of each page. (One of tools I'm working on does some page arrangement, a la psrev and psnup, and that will of course understand this.) -- __John When asked to attend a court case, Father Moses took with him a leaking jug of water. Asked about it, he said: "You ask me to judge the faults of another, while mine run out like water behind me." jcgs@uk.co.harlqn (UK notation) jcgs@harlqn.co.uk (most places) ...!mcvax!ukc!harlqn!jcgs (uucp - really has more stages, but ukc knows us) John Sturdy Telephone +44-223-872522 Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge, UK