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I’m just asking myself, what are those bbox values printed out by:
gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox myfile.pdf
%%BoundingBox: 46 911 1668 4537
%%HiResBoundingBox: 46.080002 911.520035 1667.520064 4536.000173
top-left-X, top-left-Y, ….?
And what’s the measurement of those values (1/72″)?
Thanks for helping
These values are given in PostScript “points”:
so yes, the measurement value is 1/72”…
The four values need to be read as two pairs of coordinates describing the lower left and the upper right corner points of a rectangle enclosing the bounding box.
The PostScript coordinate system has its origin in the lower left corner.
The
46 911part is for the lower left corner point: 46 points distance from therightleft edge and 911 points from the bottom edge.The
1668 4537part is for the upper right corner point: 1668 points distance from therightleft edge and 4537 points from the bottom edge.(Corrected a somewhat legasthenic error… Thanks to Scolytus for spotting it.)