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Started by Leddel Led
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:43
Automatic EPS Bounding Box
Author: Leddel Led
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:43
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:43
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Is there some way to have the Adobe PS (or some other) driver automatically set the bounding box when producing EPS output? Background: I write documents in LaTeX and need to use EPS as the format for graphics for my figures. I prefer using tools like PowerPoint and Visio for creating the graphics. Since they don't have a built-in EPS export function, I've been printing to EPS files and then manually adjusting the cropping settings in LaTeX. It would be much nicer if there were some way to have the print driver automatically determine and report the bounding box for the file.
Re: Automatic EPS Bounding Box
Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:57
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:57
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There is a simple method an application can use to set the bounding box of an EPS, which is just ignored if they don't make an EPS. Unfortunately, no applications seem to use this! This means that printer driver-produced EPS files don't have a bounding box. The driver doesn't attempt to guess one. Aandi Inston
Re: Automatic EPS Bounding Box
Author: Leddel Led
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:38
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:38
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That's interesting. I'll bug Microsoft about that one, but I don't think they care very much about interoperability with LaTeX... In the mean time, is there some command-line utility (so it can be run in batch mode) that can insert the bounding box definition based on the content?
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