Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!pyramid!prls!philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!thomas From: thomas@bnlux0.bnl.gov (Richard A. Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: FontBBox definition Keywords: FontBBox PostScript Message-ID: <603@bnlux0.bnl.gov> Date: 18 Aug 88 17:02:53 GMT References: <21@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> <598@rocksanne.UUCP> Reply-To: thomas@bnlux0.UUCP (Richard A. Thomas) Distribution: na Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y. Lines: 18 Well, it is ``documented'' (sort of). On page 212 of the Green Book (PostScript Language Program Design), there is a discussion of Debugging Techniques and the TYPECHECK error: Here are some common causes of the typecheck error: ... There is a difference between an integer and a real number. Make sure you supply each operator with the correct type. This is especially important with the idiv operator, since early versions of the PostScript interpreter graciously permitted real operands as arguments when they should not have. End of quote. Richard Thomas Brookhaven National Lab