Re: [hylafax-users] BreakIntoLines goes the wrong direction?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

At 01:54 PM 5/11/01 -0600, Curtis Rempel wrote:
>I've been playing around with a custom cover page on 4.1b3 for awhile now
>and gave up on the BreakIntoCommentX procedure - the only thing I could get
>it to do was print one long line of comments that ran off the page.
>Looking at BreakIntoLines seemed to be the way to go.  Out of the gate, it
>works great, however, my comments go up the page instead of down the page.
>That is, the first line of comments starts in the correct position but the
>next line appears above the first line instead of below it and on it goes up
>the page instead of down the page.
>
>Here's the PostScript I'm using:
>
>/linewidth 1783 def
>/lineheight 93 def
>/y 1517 def /x 300 def
>linewidth lineheight x y comments BreakIntoLines
>
>I must be missing something obvious....

Yeah, postscript coordinates are in the 1st quadrant, so as you go down a
page the y coordinate gets smaller, not bigger.

You may want to take a look at:
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81

If you can make the given patch use stringwidth rather than
character-count, then we can probably get the patch committed to CVS.

Thanks.

Lee



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