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Developer`UseFrontEnd + FrontEndExecute + GetBoundingBoxSizePacket

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• Subject: [mg71278] Developer`UseFrontEnd + FrontEndExecute + GetBoundingBoxSizePacket
• From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
• Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:49:15 -0500 (EST)

In the front end, the statement inside Developer`UseFrontEnd, below,
will return {{width,top,bottom}}. When executing the statement below
in the text interface (Mathematica 5.2 Kernel from the start menu), it
hangs Mathematica. This is also the case when running Mathematica from
Ant using the Mathematica Ant task.

Developer`UseFrontEnd[blah=FrontEndExecute[GetBoundingBoxSizePacket[BoxData[ToBoxes[Expand[(1
+x)^11]]]]]]

Does anyone know a way to make this statement (or one like it) work? I
have a good use for it. The baseline to bottom distance will be
written to a processing instruction in an XML file that eventually
tells a PDF writing program how to adjust the inline positioning of
Mathematica graphics relative to a line of text.

-- 
http://chris.chiasson.name/

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