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Article #3953Re: Boundingbox???
From: Berthold K.P. Horn
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 13:20
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 13:20
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In article <1992Oct2.114504.26092@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes: In <RMF.92Oct1203636@chopin.cs.columbia.edu> rmf@chopin.cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer) writes: >[wants to be able to determine how big the output page is so PS >programs can scale themselves to fill it] The default clipping path is the imagable area of the output page. Simply call "clippath flattenpath pathbbox". Try and avoid doing such things UNLESS you are sure that noone will EVER try and use this as an inserted figure. If your graphics is included as an EPS file somewhere this trick will kill any positioning and scaling done by the enclosing PS code. Most annoying that some reall applications produce code just like this! In defense, the application importing the PS has to play games like changing the clipping path... Berthold K.P. Horn Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!wheat-chex!bkph From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Boundingbox??? Message-ID: <28903@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 6 Oct 92 13:20:14 GMT References: <1992Sep30.135915.6102@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <RMF.92Oct1203636@chopin.cs.columbia.edu> <1992Oct2.114504.26092@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Lines: 21 In-reply-to: cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie's message of 2 Oct 92 11:45:04 GMT