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From: des@elberton.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Determining the proper BoundingBox ??
Keywords: Postscript programs, BoundingBox comment
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Date: 10 Nov 89 16:34:53 GMT
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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:
>>Is there a readily available program (PostScript, or even C) that figures
>>the smallest bounding box based on the graphics found in a file?
>
>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.

better still, prepend a bit of PostScript onto the front of the file
to draw a grid on the page so that you can work out directly the
bounding box relative to the co-ordianet system in action at the
start of the file. A simple shell script in Unix will do all this
mechanically for you.

david shepherd
INMOS ltd