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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: fragment from dvips prologue
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.181720.454@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 91 18:17:20 GMT
References: <5424@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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> Does anyone recognize this piece of PostScript found in a prologue
> sent out by dvips?  I have checked all versions of dvips and dvi2ps
> %!PS (but not EPSF through switch or no memory)
> %%Creator: dvips by Radical Eye Software

It's from an old version of dvips.

> The function is making assumptions about the character coordinate
> system (namely that it is 1000-unit based).  If you use this on
> a font that has an identity FontMatrix, wild things happen...

Yeah, that functionality is handled in a completely new way with the
new dvips anyway.

-tom