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From: hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: BoundingBox from Illustrator
Keywords: BoundingBox
Message-ID: <31084@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 89 14:32:20 GMT
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produced by Adobe Illustrator 1.1:  %%BoundingBox:159 -200 416 -10.
Our system (psfig/tex, Rokicki's dvips) has two problems with this.
First, psfig doesn't parse it, because it expects a space after the :.
Second, dvips interprets the negative y values as placing the figure
below the origin, and moves it up accordingly, so that the figure is placed
far above the 11" page.  

Why does Adobe Illustrator produce code which doesn't conform to Adobe's
EPSF Spec. (I have version 2.0, 11/1/88)?  Using the method described on
p.5 under %%BoundingBox: (print the figure and measure), how is it possible
to come up with negative values?  Has version 1.1 of Illustrator been
superceded by something that does produce reasonable EPSF code?  Or am I
missing something?