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Article #2766Re: FontBBox in Font Dictionaries
From: Gisle Aas
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 1990 08:28
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 1990 08:28
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In article <239@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
> It's an executable array (otherwise known as a procedure). You can
> get it to land on the stack by using
>
> /Helvetica findfont begin /FontBBox load end
>
> and you can use the "cvlit" operator if you want it to be a literal
> array for some reason.
I can not see that the definition of FontBBox in the Red book says
that it should be an executable array. IMHO it ought to be a literal
array.
The Blue book example of creating a new (analytic) font (page 219)
also defines FontBBox as a normal array of 4 numbers:
/FontBBox [50 0 760 700] def
Perhaps the PS-books should be fixed to match the implementation, or
vica versa.
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