From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- support/bbfig/bbfig.man | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 support/bbfig/bbfig.man (limited to 'support/bbfig/bbfig.man') diff --git a/support/bbfig/bbfig.man b/support/bbfig/bbfig.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..68d049cc88 --- /dev/null +++ b/support/bbfig/bbfig.man @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +.TH BBFIG LOCAL +.SH NAME +bbfig \- calculate bounding boxes in PostScript +.SH SYNTAX +.B bbfig +[ file \&.\|.\|. ] +.SH USAGE +.I Bbfig +should be piped into +.I psprint +or the equivalant. +.SH DESCRIPTION +The concatenation of the list of files, or standard input +if no file names are supplied, is +assumed to be a PostScript program for which the bounding box is desired. +.I Bbfig +prepends code that +calculates the bounding box, +and places the result on standard output. +The actual +calculation is done in the PostScript printer; the output is +in the form of a dashed line demarcating the bounding box and +and the corresponding +.B %%BoundingBox +header line printed just below the box. +The +.B %%BoundingBox +line +should be added to the header of the PostScript file. +.SH BUGS +.I Bbfig +is known to be confused by images and clipping paths. If the box +around the figure clearly is not the minimal one, a ruler is the +best bet for calculating the correct box. Remember that the +bounding box values are in PostScript points (72 to the inch) +relative to an origin at the lower left corner of the page, and +that (a,b) is the lower left hand corner of the bounding box, and +(c,d) is the upper right corner. +.SH Author +Ned Batchelder, modified by Bernie Cosell [cosell@bbn.com] +?>? -- cgit v1.2.3