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From: decouty@irisa.fr (Bertrand Decouty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Determining the proper BoundingBox ??
Keywords: Postscript programs, BoundingBox comment
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Date: 9 Nov 89 14:26:55 GMT
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In article <7893@cg-atla.UUCP> felleman@cg-atla.UUCP (John Felleman) writes:
| 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.
| >
| 

You can also try 'bbfig' from Ned Batchelder, which is a PostScript
prologue downloaded before your PS file.

Warning: it does not ALWAYS work.

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