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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How big is the image area?
Summary: a possiblity
Message-ID: <17882@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 7 Feb 90 18:25:41 GMT
References: <1522@east.East.Sun.COM>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <1522@east.East.Sun.COM>, msf@rotary.Sun.COM (Michael Fischbein) writes:
> It there a portable (between different vendor's PostScript printers) way
> to determine what the printer regards as the top of the image area?
> 

Measure it?  There is a possiblity that you can find the info in the statusdict
or serverdict, but may not be portable.  You could perhaps check the frame
parameters, and /or examine the papersize selection code in the built in
dictionaries.

Cheers
woody