Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!akk2
From: akk2@ur-tut (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bounding Box info for MacDraw files
Keywords: Bounding Box, MacDraw
Message-ID: <2150@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 15:37:02 GMT
References: <1177@nugipsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <1177@nugipsy.UUCP> tcianflo@nugipsy.UUCP (Tom Cianflone) writes:
>I need an easy way to determine the Bounding Box parameters for
>PostScript files created by MacDraw.  Right now we are calculating
>this stuff by hand -- very time consuming and no fun.
>Are there any public domain programs that can do this
>automatically?  Or perhaps any easier way than doing it long-hand?

I presume you are referring to the Postscript files produced by the command-F
option on the print dialog box (Why can't this be an option in the standard
dialog box ? - Apple ?).

Anyway, I do have a Postscript file that can be added to the beginning of your
postscript file, which when printed will also print the BoundingBox info.  You
can then add the BoundingBox line into the Postscript file.  It is thus a two
step process.  I did not write this and I have to look to see if it can be
posted here.  It comes with the psfig/TeX macro package (for those of you who
use TeX).


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