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Article #1291Re: Determining the proper BoundingBox ??
From: Bertrand Decouty
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 14:26
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 14:26
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In article <7893@cg-atla.UUCP> felleman@cg-atla.UUCP (John Felleman) writes:
| In article <5553@ubc-cs.UUCP> halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) writes:
| >In article <3094@husc6.harvard.edu> nowlin@gramian.UUCP (Bill Nowlin) writes:
| >>A simple question that I expect has a simple answer:
|
| >
| >There is an extremely effective, absolutely foolproof way of doing this.
| >
| >Print the page and measure it. If you don't have a ruler calibrated in
| >points, get one. Even Adobe recommend this - see the EPSF document for
| >details.
| >
|
You can also try 'bbfig' from Ned Batchelder, which is a PostScript
prologue downloaded before your PS file.
Warning: it does not ALWAYS work.
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