suter@latcs1.oz.au (David Suter) (10/31/90)
Some time ago I saw a discussion about changes to psfig that, amongst other things, made these macros act more sensibly when a file doesn't exist or does not contain a BoundingBox statement. Has anyone collected and/or tested these changes? i.e. can someone mail or point me to an ftp site that has an appropriate version. BTW we seem to get many postings along the lines of "I can't get psfig to do anything sensible - what am I doing wrong - I posted same myself originally - seem that changes along the lines above could go someway towards reducing these complaints. d.s.
dsmith@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (J. Daniel Smith) (11/01/90)
In article <9116@latcs1.oz.au> suter@latcs1.oz.au (David Suter) writes: >Some time ago I saw a discussion about changes to psfig that, >amongst other things, made these macros act more sensibly when a file doesn't >exist or does not contain a BoundingBox statement. Has anyone collected I also have made changes that do the following: * check the first line of the file to be sure it starts with '%!'. If it doesn't, a warning message is issued, since the file probably isn't a PostScript file. * keep searching for another "%%BoundingBox:" if the "(atend)" specification is found. * accept "%%BoundingBox:" comments both with and without a space after the colon. The code to do much of this was taken from "epsf.tex", part of the "dvips" package. I'll be glad to make these changes available, once I'm sure everything is OK with the respective authors.... Dan ========================================================================== J. Daniel Smith Internet: dsmith@applga.aa.cad.slb.com Schlumberger CAD/CAM BITNET: smithdan@msuegr Ann Arbor, Michigan Usenet: uunet!sharkey!applga!dsmith ==========================================================================