[daip] Error(?) in postscript file.

[Eric Greisen]

R. Craig Walker wrote:
> I am editing some postscript from LWPLA, PL file produced by KNTR.  A very
> early element in the file is a pair of lines giving moveto and lineto
> commands to delineate a box that exactly matches the bounding box.  That
> is followed on the second line by "fill stroke"  The sequence is preceded
> by setrgbcolor.  This appears to me to be an attempt to put a background
> on the full plot window.  However there is a hitch.  The "72 300 div dup
> scale" line is located earlier in the file.  So in fact what you get is
> this curious little box positioned below and to the left of the main plot,
> and mostly if not entirely outside of the bounding box.  It is very clear
> if you change the color from the default white, which you normally can't
> see when displaying the plot file because that is what the rendering
> engine puts there.  I have a bright red box now in the one I'm testing.  I
> suspect you'll get something closer to the desired effect by putting these
> lines ahead of the scaling line.
> 
> For whatever it's worth, there are both vectors and bitmaps in the file
> I'm talking about (contours and greys).

This background option comes from LWPLA itself and it seems to do it 
correctly - at least I just ran it on a PLOTR output and a KNTR output 
and in both cases the moverto, linetos, and fill stroke commands come 
before the scaling commands.  In your editing, did you accidentally 
reverse them?

Eric Greisen