Right aligning text 1

[paulusharvey]

Hi,

I have just started using postscript, and I am just struggling with something that I am sure is very simple (though very much not for me!!). I am creating a pricelist, and one of my columns needs to be right aligned.
I have managed to get the rest of the page working correctly, but just can't stop this column from overlapping the following one.

My (thouroughly incorrect I am sure) attempt at the function required is as follows, within the alignment of the text:

245 574.9 5.0 6.3 (blood pressure meter) s
			
/ra {dup stringwidth pop 98 sub } def
/r {ra s} def
			
	80.7 6.3 ( UA-767+ ) r
	100 6.3 (301-0568) s
	132.9 6.3 (35.79) s
	155 6.3 (S) s
	5.19 6.10 ti dofont
        166.9 6.3 (69.99) s	
	5.19 6.10 tr dofont
	
pop pop

Whereby I need to right align the column with UA-767 to the next column, with a space of 2 (hence the 98). The above code just breaks my Ghost script.

I would really appreciate any help that anyone could give me - I don't think that I am goign to have much hair left at this rate!!

I appreciate that this isn't much code, but didn't see a way of attaching to this message, and the ps file is a bit big to paste in of course. I can send a full file or anything really to anyone who can help though!

thanks in advance,

Paul

 

[SJProuty]

In the procedure "r", "ra" and "s" are called. You might want to check the operand stack after the "ra" procedure has executed. There might not be the correct number and/or order of objects on the stack for the "s" procedure.

Thanks
Scott Prouty

 

[paulusharvey]

Thanks a lot SJProuty, I hadn't been considering the stack properly when I was trying to create the function (using a centering function that I had obtained) and so I had left too many objects on the stack for '/s' and not rolled them into the right place!

I'll know better for next time though!

Cheers,
Paul