Re: [NTG-context] placefigure

26 Jul 2007

      Peter Rolf schrieb:
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Hi Liesbeth,
There is a problem with the bounding box (bb) of the eps file. Although
gs shows it correctly (Info), it uses the media size (default A4) as
border for the pdf.
You can change the media size by hand (set it to bb), but it's less
error prone to use "extract..." or "ps to eps" from the file menu.
sorry, this doesn't work. it seems, that i have made my tests with an
already modified (media size) eps graphic. so the only working way i
found, is to edit the media size.

menu "media"-->"user defined..."
set the values to the ones from the bounding box (hit "I" after you have
loaded the gfx).

for your example:
  BoundingBox 0 0 244 243
  set the first value to 244pt, the second one to 243pt.
now the conversion should work (retested!) :)

<DEL>
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1. open the eps file with gs
2. use "ps to eps" ( [x] automatically calculate ...] is set here) and
save in a different file
3. convert this new file to pdf. The resulting pdf should have the
correct size.
<DEL/>
...
Sorry, found no way to automatize it (I can't beleave this is not possible).
HTH, Peter
BTW: why don't you use MetaPost?
Liesbeth van der Plas schrieb:
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I use Windows XP.
2007/7/26, Patrick Gundlach mailto:patrick@gundla.ch>:
Hello Liesbeth,
> Yesterday I sent a few files, but I got a return that the message
    body was
    > too big.
    > Here are the three most important files from yesterday's map.
epstopdf breaks with this file. If, by chance, you use Mac OS X, you
    can use 'pstopdf' (the distiller from adobe). Then the pdf files have
    a tight bounding box.
Patrick
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