Well, it now appears that I cannot do my figures at all in linux, which sucks. At this point it looks like I will be forced to go to windows or the mac to do this right. I am using lyx and kontour, up to now, to make my figures for a paper I am working on. I export kontour files to eps and viola! Cropped all to useless hell. No matter what I do to the figure in kontour, no matter what I do to the bounding box numbers in the eps file itself, my figures are cropped to unusability. The postscript version of the figures are fine. Going to eps, which is what the journals I will submit to require/accept renders the figures into crap. What is wrong with the linux way of doing eps that doesn't appear to affect windoze or the mac? praedor