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From: felleman@cg-atla.UUCP (John Felleman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Determining the proper BoundingBox ??
Keywords: Postscript programs, BoundingBox comment
Message-ID: <7893@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 89 22:30:53 GMT
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Reply-To: felleman@cg-atla.UUCP (John Felleman)
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In article <5553@ubc-cs.UUCP> halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) writes:
>In article <3094@husc6.harvard.edu> nowlin@gramian.UUCP (Bill Nowlin) writes:
>>A simple question that I expect has a simple answer:

>
>There is an extremely effective, absolutely foolproof way of doing this.
>
>Print the page and measure it. If you don't have a ruler calibrated in
>points, get one. Even Adobe recommend this - see the EPSF document for
>details.
>

Actually, I don't think the EPSF document was recommending that you actually
measure each document you created for export. Rather, the correct bounding
box was defined as what you would get if you did measure it by hand.

Unfortunately, figuring out the extent of all the objects on a page
requires interpreting the PostScript.  I think that is why EPSF asks that
the creator supply the info in the BoundingBox comment.  You are stuck
with a program that obeys the letter but not the spirit of the law.

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