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- From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
- Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
- Subject: Re: Problems with HP Laserjet
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:10:27 -0500
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- Approved: bug-ghostscript@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Message-ID: <9301212203.1.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com>
- References: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
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- Re <9301212310.AA29009@raisin-nut>
- <1993Jan21.164257.9572@nas.nasa.gov>:
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- > I have been having trouble getting some postscript documents that print
- > correctly on an Apple Laserwriter to print on an HP Laserjet+ using
- > gs 2.5.2. I have tracked down the source of the problem to the following
- > line:
- >
- > clippath pathbbox
- >
- > This returns a box that is 11" by 8.5", and does not subtract the
- > unprintable region of the page. Am I mistaken in assuming that this is
- > supposed to return a bounding box for the printable region, and not the
- > physical page size?
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- When I executed this code on my copy of Ghostscript 2.5.2, it
- correctly returned a clipping box that had been inset to reflect the
- unprintable region. I wonder why you get different results. The
- test I ran was:
- gs -sDEVICE=ljetplus
- GS>initclip clippath pathbbox pstack
- 792.0
- 586.8
- 14.16
- 24.96
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