just in case this helps anyone debug, I noticed that the bounding box calculation is affected by the color value; if I draw lines with a white component, e.g. by '0.5 setgray' they get considered by the bounding box algorithm, whereas completely black lines don't make it...
%!PS-Adobe-2.0 %%Creator: foo %%BoundingBox: 197 398 367 602 %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () () %%EndComments /mainfont /Courier findfont 14 scalefont def mainfont setfont %%EndProlog %%Page: 1 1 0.0 setgray 250 450 moveto (Hello, World!) show 200 400 moveto 50 100 rlineto 0 -100 rmoveto -50 100 rlineto 3.5 setlinewidth stroke 0.5 setgray 260 550 moveto (Hello, World!) show 210 500 moveto 50 100 rlineto 0 -100 rmoveto -50 100 rlineto 3.5 setlinewidth stroke showpage %%Pages: 1 -- ghostscript's bbox driver gives wrong result https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160203 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs