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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Determining the proper BoundingBox ??
Keywords: Postscript programs, BoundingBox comment
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Date: 10 Nov 89 20:31:50 GMT
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Ok, next question, well actually three. Why is the BoundingBox
specified in integer units? What about applications that need to
position inserts more accurately? And what do we do with programs that
violate the standard by generating floating point values for BBs, like
Arbortext's pubdraw/vecps.