Re: Help: Scanning non-SGML files

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Maden wrote:
> 
> I'm at one of the last frontiers of my SGML->MIF conversion: figures.
> I've got everything set, except that the Frame ShapeRect has to be
> sized manually in FrameMaker after conversion.  I'd like to create a
> ShapeRect with the right dimensions in the conversion process.
> 
> The graphics in question are EPS, and include a %%BoundingBox
> comment.  If I can parse the graphics, I could get the necessary
> information, but I can't find a way to either scan the graphics
> directly (which I didn't expect),

Use the read-entity external procedure.

> or to launch an auxiliary process to
> return a value (which I did).

That would raise security issues.

James



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