Re: Generating files of bounding boxes, etc?

[Rich Morin]

I never saw any response to this inquiry, but I'm still heading in the
same general direction.  Here's an alternative question that may be a
bit easier for someone to answer:

Let's assume that I redefine "show" to grab some relevant info on each
character being imaged (e.g., bounding box, font, point size, etc.).
How should I "print" this information from within the PostScript code
so that it can be retrieved by a follow-on program?  For example, can
I log text messages to some specified file?

-r


At 9:30 PM -0700 8/20/05, Rich Morin wrote:
> Let's assume that I have used gs to render some PDF into raster files
> (one per page) of some known size.  I would like to be able to generate
> corresponding files that contain the bounding boxes for each character
> that was imaged, as:
>
>   'F', 46, 100, 100, 120, 110
>   'o', 6f, ...
>   'o', 6f, ...
>
> Although I'm pretty sure I can find a way to hack this into the code,
> I thought I'd ask whether there's already something of this sort that
> I should investigate.
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