Hi Jérôme, Please reply to the list, not just me. :-)
> Here is the context : I'm student in Law and next year I will have to > write a memorandum. Nevertheless, this memorandum must be in MS Word > format which displease me greatly. This format is imposed to verify > if we respect the instructions, and especially the margins. > > In this situation, I wonder if there is a solution to obtain this > information from another format, like Postscript, so I can propose an > alternative to the use of MS Word format. Ghostscript can report the bounding-box for the ink laid on each page. http://ghostscript.com/doc/7.07/Use.htm#Bounding_box_output $ for n in 5 271 3141; do > echo $n > seq $n | groff | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox - > done 5 %%BoundingBox: 73 829 107 837 %%HiResBoundingBox: 73.025998 829.745975 106.379997 836.765974 271 %%BoundingBox: 72 719 540 837 %%HiResBoundingBox: 72.017998 719.045978 539.747984 836.765974 3141 %%BoundingBox: 72 47 540 837 %%HiResBoundingBox: 72.017998 47.051999 539.747984 836.765974 %%BoundingBox: 72 47 540 837 %%HiResBoundingBox: 72.305998 47.051999 539.675984 836.765974 %%BoundingBox: 72 683 540 837 %%HiResBoundingBox: 72.305998 683.045979 539.675984 836.765974 $ Note how the left margin varies slightly, 72 or 73, depending I suspect on the curvuture of the glyphs at the start of the line. The first document has the smallest height, just one line of text, from 829 to 837; origin is bottom-left. The two full pages of the 3141 document have the same low-res box. Perhaps this helps. Cheers, Ralph.
