text location extraction from .ps

[bngsk]

Hello,

I am a beginner with postscript and have one query.

When I view a .ps file in GhostView, the coordinates of the text as seen from the viewer do not match the coordinates used the source code. This may be because of SCALING or TRANSLATION.

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For file 3pageportraitN.ps

325 296 M (001This is a three page portrait postscript file. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)

In Ghostview I get the coordinates of 001This as 90 710. Why this is not same as 325 296? I want to retrieve 325 296 without looking at the source code. Is there a way to locate the start coordinate of a word is .ps?

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Where as For file hello-text.ps

72 72 moveto
(Hello, world!) show

In Ghostview I get the coordinates of Hello, world as 72, 72.

The problem here is how to find a relation of between the text coordinates from the raster view(in GhostScript) and the source code.

The requirement here is that the server parses a .ps file based on the text coordinates given by the user.

Thanks,

Sanjay

 

[macropod]

Hi Sanjay,

The answer to your question might lie in what 'M' does - it sounds as if its more complex than a simple moveto.

Cheers

[MS MVP - Word]