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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: %%BoundingBox: statement
Keywords: Document Structure spec, Adobe Illustrator
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Date: 26 Aug 89 18:10:43 GMT
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In article <3377@daisy.UUCP> cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) writes:
    According to the Document Structure Spec v2.1 (also the Red Book), the
    Bounding Box is defined in the statement
	    %%BoundingBox: llx lly urx ury 
    where all four values MUST be integers.
    
    However, I have several Adobe Illustrator v1.6 documents that
    use floating point number in the BoundingBox statement.
    
    Is my document outdated?  Or is it a bug in Illustrator?
    
This is a bug in Illustrator.  I'm not sure whether it's been fixed
yet, but they know about it in the Illustrator group.

    If the people who designed the convention do not follow it, how much
    can we count on the spec?

Unfortunately, the people who designed the convention are not the
people who wrote Illustrator.  The application product teams at
Adobe are just another developer, in a sense, and they have to
interpret the specs like everybody else.  That doesn't mean that
the specification should be held under suspicion, I don't think.