RE: BoundingBox in PostScript output for A4 is too large and the computation with its comment are bogus

Al Ma alma0 at ro.ru
Sun Mar 10 05:45:51 CET 2024


> I think that it's quite useful to provide a HiResBoundingBox comment as well. The latter allows real numbers instead of integers.
Almost no reals can be spelt out. Do you probably mean the rationals or the rationals representable in decimal notation?
Notice that the width of A4 is 21 cm / (2,54 cm/in) × 72 pt/in = 75600/127 pt, which cannot be represented exactly using the decimal notation.
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