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From: phillips@cs.ubc.ca (George Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: FontBBox in Font Dictionaries
Summary: is it an array or what
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Date: 8 Aug 90 22:31:36 GMT
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I'm confused about the FontBBox entry that is supposed to be in every
font dictionary.  According to my copy of the red book, FontBBox is
a 4 element array.  But on both a NeXT machine and a laserwriter it
appears to be 4 numbers.  That is, if you do something like:

/Helvetica findfont begin FontBBox end

you'll have 
	-166 -244 1000 966
on the stack instead of the array
	[ -166 -244 1000 966 ]

So why does it push 4 numbers instead of the array?


George Phillips phillips@cs.ubc.ca {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!phillips