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PostScript figures not being scaled! ACK!

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From: John Price
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:20
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I'm running OzTeX 1.42 on a Mac IIsi with system 7.0.1*, with the BoxedEPSF 
PostScript inclusion package.  I save the files and print them on an HP 
DeskWriter using Freedom of Press Lite 3.0.1.  This *used* to work, but 
lately, I'm seeing the effect that the PostScript figures aren't being 
scaled properly.  I tested this with the \ShowDisplacementBoxes command in 
BoxedEPSF.  Example:

        -----------------------------
        |                           |
        |  ******************       |           "-","|"  edge of paper
        |  *                *       |           "*"      position of figure
        |  *  .....         *       |           "."      displacement box
        |  *  .   .         *       |                    (where OzTeX 
        |  *  .....         *       |                     thinks the figure
        |  * text text text *       |                     is)
        |  ******************       |
        |                           |
        |                           |
                   etc.

Note that the figure as printed covers up the text below the displacement 
box.  This is incredibly annoying, and is one thing I didn't want to have 
to worry about while trying to finish my thesis (I should have known 
better...).  Clearly, I'm doing something horribly wrong; I used this exact 
(as far as I can tell) configuration before, and it worked flawlessly.  
Now, however, not so good.  I've looked at the raw PostScript code, and 
changed the scaling I (tried to) apply to the figure.  Just before the code 
for the figure are four numbers and a call to @bepsf; I believe that this 
is the point where the scaling and translation is done.  If I change the 
scaling, those numbers change.  The resulting figure, however, does not.

Any ideas on where to start looking for a solution will be greatly 
appreciated.

           John Price * * * * price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu
           Where there is no solution, there is no problem.
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