From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Jan 31 21:25:16 2004
Subject: [OT] manipulating ps/eps/pdf (was: Re: saving plot images in arbitrary  sizes.)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at sbcglobal dot net>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:18:51 -0600

On 31-Jan-2004, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at sbcglobal dot net> wrote:

| In the past I have had considerable trouble converting and manipulating 
| ps/eps/pdf graphics.  The basic tools available generally do a poor job. 
|   For example, if you use ps2pdf on a gnuplot generated eps graphic, it 
| generates a letter-size pdf with your graphic in the lower-left corner; 
| not what I want!  Using ImageMagick's convert changes everything to 
| bitmapped format, even if you convert ps->ps.

You should try epstopdf instead of ps2pdf.  It solves the bounding box
problem.

jwe



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