Re: Purpose of %%BeginPreview ... %%EndPreview in eps files

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From: Douglas Gray Stephens
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:45

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In article <JNICOLAS.93Jan23001608@image.mit.edu> jnicolas@image.mit.edu (Julien Nicolas) writes:

   Eps files generated with 'print -deps' are huge. Unecessarily so it
   seems. They contain, at least under 4.0, a section with no information:

   %%BeginPreview: 560 420 1 420
   %ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
   ...
   %%EndPreview


MathWorks has always failed to generate good Encapsulated PostScript.
The PostScript Language Reference manual states that only required header
comments are:-

       %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
       %%BoundingBox llx lly urx ury

The preview image is required for Encapsulated PostScript interchange
format (EPSI) files, but matlab's print refers to EPSF files, which do
not require the image.

I believe that MathWorks had several discussions about this, and I'm
glad to say that version 4.0a corrects this feature, so the print
command now has an optional "-preview" argument.

I wish that MathWorks get its house in order and generate the correct
BoundingBox for its EPS files.

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