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Hi - I have a large .ps file. There are some variables defined but I am not able to figure the length of the variable.

I am picking some part of the code, it is like a four column and multiple row matrix.

 .../$v.HDLE_UNIT_TOTAL ex 31.752 103.752 220.4 2 10.0 0.0 0 vsE  //31.752 must b x axis?
 /$v.PKGE_QTY_TOTAL ex 69.48 213.48 220.4 2 10.0 0.0 0 vsE....   //213.48 must b y asix?
   // what defines the length of that variable?
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It is completely impossible to say what this PostScript snippet does without access to the complete PostScript program/file.

At the very least one needs to know what vsE means. This must be defined elsewhere in the file (more to the front in a statement similar to

/vsE {some-PS-code} def
pipitas
Hi - I have another question, I checked the postscript completely. But could not find definition for 'ex' and 'VarEx' defined after some of the variables.
oneofthelions
Would you know the difference like if they are defined as 0.1 0.2 /var_a ex 0.2 0.3 /var_b VarEx
oneofthelions
@oneofthelions: no, there is not any chance for me to guess what that could mean. Would you know the meaning and value of any of 4 cryptically-named variables in JavaScript, if you saw just two lines cut from within a `.js` file using them?
pipitas
@oneofthelions: BTW, just curious -- why did you tag this question with `[pdf]`? Does PDF come into play somewhere with your problem?
pipitas