Re: [hylafax-users] Postscript Problem

[alan <alan@pair.com>]

Use a negative line height (lh).  0,0 is in the lower left hand corner
of the page in postscript.

Alan

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Moritz Mann wrote:

> hello everybody,
> 
> I have a problem with the line breaking algorithm (BreakIntoLines) which
> faxcover inserts in my faxcover.ps.
> The "comments" string i want to break is:
> 
> /comments (aaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbb cccccccccc dddddddddd eeeeeeeeee
> ffffffffff gggggggggg hhhhhhhhhh) def
> 
> and i tried the following two methods:
>  
>  lw lh  x y comments BreakIntoLines
> 
> and
> 
>  /rule (_____________________________________________) def
>  /lw rule stringwidth pop def /lh 30 def
>  /y 191.4 def /x 0 def
>  y -30 0 { x exch moveto rule show } for
>  lw lh x y comments BreakIntoLines
> 
> with the effect that the lines are broken upwards and not as preferred
> downwards.
> 
> Is there maybe a solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Moritz
> -- 
> moritz mann
> junior software engineer
> 
> open systems ag
> raeffelstrasse 29
> ch-8045 zürich
> t: +41 1 455 74 00
> f: +41 1 455 74 01
> moritz@open.ch
> 
> http://www.open.ch



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