> knowing a bit of postscript is quite useful
Agreed. Often for making dvips header files, or trying to control a
printer.
> One particular example is when you deal with postscript figures in
> LaTeX. Some postscript generation programs generate incorrect
> boundingboxes, and this makes the encapsulation of the figure in LaTeX
> plain difficult.
While lousy postscrit generation (usually in the redmond corner) is
aplenty, the way to fix it is to run the graphics through one of the
programs which determines the bounding box for you, and then to stick
those numbers into latex:
\includegraphics[bbox=....]{...}
While we're at lousy postscript, ghostscript (any version) fails to make
any pdf from postscript which allows to select/copy the text. Maybe some
find that useful *on request*, but it's actually outright unable to do a
proper job, as far as I can make out.
Volker
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