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Article #7426

Re: FontBBox definition

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From: Geoffrey Cooper
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1988 22:41
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Run this and be confused as to why the two objects printed
don't look the same:

 /Times-Roman findfont 18 scalefont setfont
 0 setlinewidth
 72 720 moveto (T) true charpath                     40 40 rlineto stroke
 72 620 moveto (T) true charpath currentpoint moveto 40 40 rlineto stroke
 showpage

(printed on LW+ with PS42.2)

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From: geof@imagen.UUCP (Geoffrey Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: FontBBox definition
Summary: Try this one
Keywords: PS bugs
Message-ID: <1796@imagen.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 88 22:41:21 GMT
References: <21@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> <598@rocksanne.UUCP> <1794@imagen.UUCP>
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Organization: IMAGEN Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101
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