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I have created graphics in Staroffice 6.0 that I need to use in a 
dissertation.  The problem with Staroffice/openoffice is that it always 
produces postscript files (when printing to file) that are needlessly too big 
- - that is, the postscript images ALWAYS include blank whitespace above, 
below, next to, the actual graphic.  In my particular case, I need to use the 
graphic in Lyx but because SO/OO doesn't produce a proper bounding box, I end 
up with too much whitespace included in the image that must be removed.  
Running ps2ps doesn't fix it.  

I need to manually edit the postscript file to cut off the whitespace at the 
bottom of my graphics but I do not understand the postscript coordinate 
system.  Where is 0 0?  Top left corner?  Top right?  Bottom left? 
The actual coordinates for the bounding box of postscript graphic I am 
presently struggling with are 0 0 612 792.  I don't know what this means.  I 
need to know what coords refer to the bottom left and right corners of the 
bounding box so I can reduce the numbers to what they should be to eliminate 
the useless whitespace.

Using gimp is not an option.  Gimp converts beautiful postscript images/text 
into horrific bitmaps.

Can anyone help me out here?

Thank you,
praedor
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