Thanks again! pstopdf is accomplishing what neither convert, nor ps2pdf, nor etc etc was able to do
Thank you very much for the hint Pau 2009/6/13 Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl>: > Pau wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> thanks a _lot_ >> >> Now I have converted all eps figures into pdf, but I am running yet >> into another snag... the conversion seems to ruin the bounding box of >> the eps figures, so that the pdf figures are taking a full a4 site; >> when I then use them in the main tex file, they are filling a whole >> page. >> >> Is there a way to define a bounding box in \externalfigure ? I have >> checked in the wikipage and googled a bit, but since English is not my >> mother tongue, I may very well have used a bad keyword. >> >> If not, can anybody point me to a way of modifying a pdf file to get >> rid of all exterior white space around a figure? I can imagine you can >> do this with adobe software, but I don't have that. Only unix. > > there is a pdtopdf script in the distribution (ruby script that needs gs) > that can do it that way (by default it uses the boundingbox) > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Let there be peace on earth. And let it begin with misc ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
