[OS X TeX] LaTeXiT

[Maarten Sneep]

On 17 May 2005, at 17:28, Pierre Chatelier wrote:

> Yes, but the depth should be deduced from the pdf rather than set  
> "a priori".
> If I am given a PDF image (as a black box), is it possible for me  
> to extract, from the pdf, the height of the box and its baseline ?  
> Or perhaps it could have been put into a comment field of the PDF  
> during latex compilation ?

There are tricks to print the depth when compiling the code. Al that  
is needed then is parsing a separate file, or the log file. (You  
actually have some of the LaTeX based trickery in a document that I  
send you earlier. So no: you cannot extract it from the pdf, but you  
can obtain that info from a TeX run.

To let everyone join in: I've put an archive with a very preliminary  
verion of a design document online at http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/tex/ 
snippet.zip Compilation instructions are in the package. Further  
suggestions are welcome.

Maarten

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