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Re: BoundingBox of graphic? (JadeTeX)
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: BoundingBox of graphic? (JadeTeX)
- From: "Lance F. Larsen" <llarsen at sco dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:38 EST
- Reply-To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
The units are points: 72 per inch is the conversion factor.
>> From: Peter Elliott <axit@paradise.net.nz>
>> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: BoundingBox of graphic? (JadeTeX)
>>
>> At 00:05 3/11/99 +0000, Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie> you wrote:
>> >>
>> >You can fix it by hand.
>> >
>> >1. Print the EPS file.
>> > If it doesn't print, you may need to manually eject the page
>> > by pressing FF on your printer control panel.
>> >
>> >2. Draw a rectangle round the image so that the four lines fall just
>> > outside the image.
>> >
>> >3. Using the bottom LH corner of the page as a reference point (0,0)
>> > measure the (x,y) coordinates of the lower LH corner (x1,y1) of
>> > the rectangle and the upper RH corner (x2,y2).
>> >
>> >4. Edit the EPS file and add the line
>> >
>> > %%BoundingBox: 26 49 596 842
>> >
>> > (replacing the four values with x1 y1 x2 y2
>> >
>> >5. Save and exit. Now the file has an approximate BoundingBox.
>> >
>> >Try to process it with your LaTeX document. If the printing is not
>> >quite what you wanted you can adjust the BoundingBox by hand (but
>> >it's usually better to get LaTeX to move and rescale it).
>> >
>> >///Peter
>>
>> OK
>> Got that - but just one Question - what units are we using here when doing our measuring? Assumed it's mm (millimeters) but thought i'd better check ...
>> Cheers
>> pre
>>
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