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Article #2747FontBBox in Font Dictionaries
From: George Phillips
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 1990 22:31
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 1990 22:31
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I'm confused about the FontBBox entry that is supposed to be in every
font dictionary. According to my copy of the red book, FontBBox is
a 4 element array. But on both a NeXT machine and a laserwriter it
appears to be 4 numbers. That is, if you do something like:
/Helvetica findfont begin FontBBox end
you'll have
-166 -244 1000 966
on the stack instead of the array
[ -166 -244 1000 966 ]
So why does it push 4 numbers instead of the array?
George Phillips phillips@cs.ubc.ca {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!phillips
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!phillips From: phillips@cs.ubc.ca (George Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: FontBBox in Font Dictionaries Summary: is it an array or what Message-ID: <9078@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 90 22:31:36 GMT Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 16