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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:
>
>Actually, I don't think the EPSF document was recommending that you actually
>measure each document you created for export. Rather, the correct bounding
>box was defined as what you would get if you did measure it by hand.

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I love to disagree with my co-worker and friend John.  As I read the EPSF
spec it sure sounds to me that Adobe is recommending that you measure by
hand to determine the bounding box.  If they are saying that you can
test the correctness of your calculation by measuring by hand, then they 
should say so in the next revision of the document.  But just to destroy
a good theoretical net argument, I'll mess it up with some factual details.
Here's the way the spec reads:

	"Regardless of the coordinate system in which your application
	operates, here is a fooproof way of determining the correct 
	bounding box: print the page, get out a point ruler, and measure 
	first to the lower left corner, then to the upper right corner,
	using the lower-left corner of the physical paper as your origin.
	This works because it measures the end result (the marks on the
	page), and none of the computation matters.

(By the way I really like how they use lower-left unhyphenated and hyphenated
in the same paragraph.)


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