BoundingBox in PostScript output for A4 is too large and the co mputation with its comment are bogus
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Sat Mar 9 23:54:58 CET 2024
Thanks for the report. I forwarded your msg to Tom Rokicki. He wrote
all this (decades ago).
I believe the idea of rounding up is that, if there is a mark at, say,
595.1, and we are restricted to integer bboxes (as we are), then the
bbox still needs to be 596, not 595, by the definition of bbox.
I guess I agree that if there is no mark outside 595, the bbox should
ideally be 595, not 596. But I don't think dvips can know whether there
is or isn't; it's not a ps interpreter.
Requiring C99 is not good, in principle.
That's about all I can think of at the moment. --best, karl.
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