[pdftex] Re: Replacement for psframebox?

[Martin Heller]

Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote:

> I tried replacing \psframebox with a use of LaTeX's \fbox, but this 
> results in far more padding between the boxes' border and the contents 
> than is aesthetically pleasing.  I think I might be able to hack around 
> this by placing the contents in a box register and  mucking with its 
> size after the fact (much like \smash).

Did you try to set \fboxsep and \fbox rule to the values you use 
in \psframebox ?

\setlength\fboxsep{1pt}
\setlength\fboxrule{0.5pt}
\fbox{text}