problems displaying eps files in LyX and WinDVI
Hi: I have searched the mail archives to the best of my ability and can find no solutions to the following problem: I open the LyX Users Guide in LyX and I try to view thesection regarding figures (4.3.1 I thiink). But I only see a blank box. If I click on the figure box I can view the full screen version of the figure in GSView 4.2 (which opens automatically). But I do get a document structure conversion warning in GSView before the figure comes up. If I try to view the DVI version of this file I get the several errors: An error window pops up stating "initialize_gs/RegOpenKeyEx can't be found" In the LaTeX? Log file window: snip pathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 msam10 gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2 Can't locate Ghostscript ! Exiting ... mktexpk: Running gsftopk msam10 600 command gsftopk msam10 600 return 1 mktexpk: warning: can't open log file msam10.log. mktexpk: `gsftopk msam10 600' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. snip Eventually the dvi version of the Users Guide shows up. But when I go to the section with the figures (p. 73-74), the same initialize_gs error window pops up and also another error message about not being able to find gsdll32.dll appears After this the WinDVI program usually crashes and the LyX menu bar becomes unresponsive. Here is my config. info: OS: WinXP HomeEd v.2002 LaTeX 2001/06/01 LyX v.1.1.6fix4 GSView 4.2 (I found gsdll32.dll in the bin folder ) Ghostscript 7.04 X-Win32 v.5.2.2b3 Lyx-gs4.03 from the ~/.lyrc/preferences file: snip--- # Program used for interpreting postscript. \ps_command "/apps/gs4.03/bin/gs" # SCREEN FONTS SECTION # \screen_dpi 80 # 2nd MISC SUPPORT SECTION ## # \screen_font_encoding_menu "iso8859-1" # # FORMATS SECTION ## # \format "pspic" "pspic" "pspic" "" \viewer "eps" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" \viewer "pdf2" "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 4.0/Acrobat/Acrobat" \viewer "ps" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" \viewer "pspic" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" snip- partial output from cygwincheck Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Mar 06 00:34:19 2002 Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin c:\Program Files\TeXLive\bin\win32 c:\WINDOWS\system32 c:\WINDOWS c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Wayne' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/tmp' USER = `Wayne' Cygwin Package Information Package Version LyX 1.1.6fix4 LyX-GScript 4.03 LyXsupport 1.3 XFree86-Runtime 4.1a ash 20020131-1 bash 2.05a-3 bc 1.06-1 binutils 20011002-1 bzip2 1.0.1-6 cron 3.0.1-5 cygrunsrv 0.95-1 cygwin 1.3.10-1 diff 0.0 ed 0.2-1 fileutils 4.1-1 findutils 4.1 gawk 3.0.4-1 gcc 2.95.3-5 gdbm 1.8.0-4 gettext 0.10.40-1 grep 2.5g groff 1.17.2-1 gzip 1.3.2-1 ispell 3.1 jpeg 6b-7 less 358-3 libintl 0.10.38-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.2a-1 login 1.4-3 man 1.5g-2 ncftp 3.0.2-2 ncurses 5.2-8 newlib-man 20001118-1 openssh 3.0.2p1-5 openssl 0.9.6c-3 pcre 3.7-1 perl 5.6.1-2 readline 4.2a-1 regex 4.4-2 sed 3.02-1 sh-utils 2.0-2 shutdown 1.2-2 tar 1.13.19-1 termcap 20010825-1 terminfo 5.2-1 texmf-doc 2804-2 textutils 2.0.21-1 tiff 3.5.7-1 vim 6.0.93-1 w32api 1.1-1 which 1.5-1 xpm-nox 4.2.0-1 Thanks for any help anyone can provide! Ciao Wayne Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email!
problems displaying eps files in LyX and WinDVI
Hi: I have searched the mail archives to the best of my ability and can find no solutions to the following problem: I open the LyX Users Guide in LyX and I try to view thesection regarding figures (4.3.1 I thiink). But I only see a blank box. If I click on the figure box I can view the full screen version of the figure in GSView 4.2 (which opens automatically). But I do get a document structure conversion warning in GSView before the figure comes up. If I try to view the DVI version of this file I get the several errors: An error window pops up stating "initialize_gs/RegOpenKeyEx can't be found" In the LaTeX? Log file window: snip pathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 msam10 gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2 Can't locate Ghostscript ! Exiting ... mktexpk: Running gsftopk msam10 600 command gsftopk msam10 600 return 1 mktexpk: warning: can't open log file msam10.log. mktexpk: `gsftopk msam10 600' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. snip Eventually the dvi version of the Users Guide shows up. But when I go to the section with the figures (p. 73-74), the same initialize_gs error window pops up and also another error message about not being able to find gsdll32.dll appears After this the WinDVI program usually crashes and the LyX menu bar becomes unresponsive. Here is my config. info: OS: WinXP HomeEd v.2002 LaTeX 2001/06/01 LyX v.1.1.6fix4 GSView 4.2 (I found gsdll32.dll in the bin folder ) Ghostscript 7.04 X-Win32 v.5.2.2b3 Lyx-gs4.03 from the ~/.lyrc/preferences file: snip--- # Program used for interpreting postscript. \ps_command "/apps/gs4.03/bin/gs" # SCREEN FONTS SECTION # \screen_dpi 80 # 2nd MISC SUPPORT SECTION ## # \screen_font_encoding_menu "iso8859-1" # # FORMATS SECTION ## # \format "pspic" "pspic" "pspic" "" \viewer "eps" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" \viewer "pdf2" "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 4.0/Acrobat/Acrobat" \viewer "ps" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" \viewer "pspic" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" snip- partial output from cygwincheck Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Mar 06 00:34:19 2002 Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin c:\Program Files\TeXLive\bin\win32 c:\WINDOWS\system32 c:\WINDOWS c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Wayne' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/tmp' USER = `Wayne' Cygwin Package Information Package Version LyX 1.1.6fix4 LyX-GScript 4.03 LyXsupport 1.3 XFree86-Runtime 4.1a ash 20020131-1 bash 2.05a-3 bc 1.06-1 binutils 20011002-1 bzip2 1.0.1-6 cron 3.0.1-5 cygrunsrv 0.95-1 cygwin 1.3.10-1 diff 0.0 ed 0.2-1 fileutils 4.1-1 findutils 4.1 gawk 3.0.4-1 gcc 2.95.3-5 gdbm 1.8.0-4 gettext 0.10.40-1 grep 2.5g groff 1.17.2-1 gzip 1.3.2-1 ispell 3.1 jpeg 6b-7 less 358-3 libintl 0.10.38-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.2a-1 login 1.4-3 man 1.5g-2 ncftp 3.0.2-2 ncurses 5.2-8 newlib-man 20001118-1 openssh 3.0.2p1-5 openssl 0.9.6c-3 pcre 3.7-1 perl 5.6.1-2 readline 4.2a-1 regex 4.4-2 sed 3.02-1 sh-utils 2.0-2 shutdown 1.2-2 tar 1.13.19-1 termcap 20010825-1 terminfo 5.2-1 texmf-doc 2804-2 textutils 2.0.21-1 tiff 3.5.7-1 vim 6.0.93-1 w32api 1.1-1 which 1.5-1 xpm-nox 4.2.0-1 Thanks for any help anyone can provide! Ciao Wayne Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email!
problems displaying eps files in LyX and WinDVI
Hi: I have searched the mail archives to the best of my ability and can find no solutions to the following problem: I open the LyX Users Guide in LyX and I try to view the section regarding figures (4.3.1 I thiink). But I only see a blank box. If I click on the figure box I can view the full screen version of the figure in GSView 4.2 (which opens automatically). But I do get a document structure conversion warning in GSView before the figure comes up. If I try to view the DVI version of this file I get the several errors: An error window pops up stating "initialize_gs/RegOpenKeyEx can't be found" In the LaTeX? Log file window: snip pathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 msam10 gsftopk(k) version 1.19.2 Can't locate Ghostscript ! Exiting ... mktexpk: Running gsftopk msam10 600 command gsftopk msam10 600 return 1 mktexpk: warning: can't open log file msam10.log. mktexpk: `gsftopk msam10 600' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. snip Eventually the dvi version of the Users Guide shows up. But when I go to the section with the figures (p. 73-74), the same initialize_gs error window pops up and also another error message about not being able to find gsdll32.dll appears After this the WinDVI program usually crashes and the LyX menu bar becomes unresponsive. Here is my config. info: OS: WinXP HomeEd v.2002 LaTeX 2001/06/01 LyX v.1.1.6fix4 GSView 4.2 (I found gsdll32.dll in the bin folder ) Ghostscript 7.04 X-Win32 v.5.2.2b3 Lyx-gs4.03 from the ~/.lyrc/preferences file: snip--- # Program used for interpreting postscript. \ps_command "/apps/gs4.03/bin/gs" # SCREEN & FONTS SECTION # \screen_dpi 80 # 2nd MISC SUPPORT SECTION ## # \screen_font_encoding_menu "iso8859-1" # # FORMATS SECTION ## # \format "pspic" "pspic" "pspic" "" \viewer "eps" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" \viewer "pdf2" "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 4.0/Acrobat/Acrobat" \viewer "ps" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" \viewer "pspic" "/cygdrive/c/Ghostgum/gsview/gsview32" snip- partial output from cygwincheck Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Mar 06 00:34:19 2002 Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin c:\Program Files\TeXLive\bin\win32 c:\WINDOWS\system32 c:\WINDOWS c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Wayne' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/tmp' USER = `Wayne' Cygwin Package Information Package Version LyX 1.1.6fix4 LyX-GScript 4.03 LyXsupport 1.3 XFree86-Runtime 4.1a ash 20020131-1 bash 2.05a-3 bc 1.06-1 binutils 20011002-1 bzip2 1.0.1-6 cron 3.0.1-5 cygrunsrv 0.95-1 cygwin 1.3.10-1 diff 0.0 ed 0.2-1 fileutils 4.1-1 findutils 4.1 gawk 3.0.4-1 gcc 2.95.3-5 gdbm 1.8.0-4 gettext 0.10.40-1 grep 2.5g groff 1.17.2-1 gzip 1.3.2-1 ispell 3.1 jpeg 6b-7 less 358-3 libintl 0.10.38-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.2a-1 login 1.4-3 man 1.5g-2 ncftp 3.0.2-2 ncurses 5.2-8 newlib-man 20001118-1 openssh 3.0.2p1-5 openssl 0.9.6c-3 pcre 3.7-1 perl 5.6.1-2 readline 4.2a-1 regex 4.4-2 sed 3.02-1 sh-utils 2.0-2 shutdown 1.2-2 tar 1.13.19-1 termcap 20010825-1 terminfo 5.2-1 texmf-doc 2804-2 textutils 2.0.21-1 tiff 3.5.7-1 vim 6.0.93-1 w32api 1.1-1 which 1.5-1 xpm-nox 4.2.0-1 Thanks for any help anyone can provide! Ciao Wayne Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email!
Re: problems with .eps-files
Regarding your problems with figures, i've had this problem also, for 2 reasons: some programs don't generate the bounding box correctly, and most programs put your small figure in the middle of (or anywhere in) a mostly blank page. I found that running the ps file in ps2epsi corrects all my problems. As a bonus, it generates a small preview in the file. I'm not sure if lyx takes that preview to display in its WYSIWYM interface, but i think so because it seems faster to display the on-screen preview of epsi files than plain ps. If it doens't, maybe it should ... :) I take figures from Matlab, mostly (diagram printouts and plots), and i have the student version, which prints a "Student Version of Matlab" annoying line in the bottom. So what i always do is to disable page border and put it in landscape mode in Matlab's print dialog, enable print to file, print. Then i run the file through this: awk '!($1 == "(Student")' $1 $1.tmp ps2epsi $1.tmp $1 rm -f $1.tmp (yes, bad shell syntax --- it should handle the argument filename's extension much better, but i'm no shell wizard and i need to finish my thesis before learning bash better) This script removes that annoying line from the postscript and generates the bbox and removes the surrounding blank. The result is consistently good. Since other programs won't put that annoying text, you can still use the script, it just won't do anything in the first line (unless you DO have a "Student" text somewhere in the figure and you want to keep it :) ). Hope that helps. It took me a while to find a solution that works and that's simple. -- _ \\ \ Eric St-Jean, ing.stag. [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \ Space Systems, Xiphos Technologies Inc \ \ (514)848-9640 fax 848-9644 \ \ Montreal, Quebec \ \\
Re: problems with .eps-files
Regarding your problems with figures, i've had this problem also, for 2 reasons: some programs don't generate the bounding box correctly, and most programs put your small figure in the middle of (or anywhere in) a mostly blank page. I found that running the ps file in ps2epsi corrects all my problems. As a bonus, it generates a small preview in the file. I'm not sure if lyx takes that preview to display in its WYSIWYM interface, but i think so because it seems faster to display the on-screen preview of epsi files than plain ps. If it doens't, maybe it should ... :) I take figures from Matlab, mostly (diagram printouts and plots), and i have the student version, which prints a "Student Version of Matlab" annoying line in the bottom. So what i always do is to disable page border and put it in landscape mode in Matlab's print dialog, enable print to file, print. Then i run the file through this: awk '!($1 == "(Student")' $1 $1.tmp ps2epsi $1.tmp $1 rm -f $1.tmp (yes, bad shell syntax --- it should handle the argument filename's extension much better, but i'm no shell wizard and i need to finish my thesis before learning bash better) This script removes that annoying line from the postscript and generates the bbox and removes the surrounding blank. The result is consistently good. Since other programs won't put that annoying text, you can still use the script, it just won't do anything in the first line (unless you DO have a "Student" text somewhere in the figure and you want to keep it :) ). Hope that helps. It took me a while to find a solution that works and that's simple. -- _ \\ \ Eric St-Jean, ing.stag. [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \ Space Systems, Xiphos Technologies Inc \ \ (514)848-9640 fax 848-9644 \ \ Montreal, Quebec \ \\
Re: problems with .eps-files
Regarding your problems with figures, i've had this problem also, for 2 reasons: some programs don't generate the bounding box correctly, and most programs put your small figure in the middle of (or anywhere in) a mostly blank page. I found that running the ps file in ps2epsi corrects all my problems. As a bonus, it generates a small preview in the file. I'm not sure if lyx takes that preview to display in its WYSIWYM interface, but i think so because it seems faster to display the on-screen preview of epsi files than plain ps. If it doens't, maybe it should ... :) I take figures from Matlab, mostly (diagram printouts and plots), and i have the student version, which prints a "Student Version of Matlab" annoying line in the bottom. So what i always do is to disable page border and put it in landscape mode in Matlab's print dialog, enable print to file, print. Then i run the file through this: awk '!($1 == "(Student")' $1 >$1.tmp ps2epsi $1.tmp $1 rm -f $1.tmp (yes, bad shell syntax --- it should handle the argument filename's extension much better, but i'm no shell wizard and i need to finish my thesis before learning bash better) This script removes that annoying line from the postscript and generates the bbox and removes the surrounding blank. The result is consistently good. Since other programs won't put that annoying text, you can still use the script, it just won't do anything in the first line (unless you DO have a "Student" text somewhere in the figure and you want to keep it :) ). Hope that helps. It took me a while to find a solution that works and that's simple. -- _ \\ \ Eric St-Jean, ing.stag. [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \ Space Systems, Xiphos Technologies Inc \ \ (514)848-9640 fax 848-9644 \ \ Montreal, Quebec \ \\
Re: problems with .eps-files
IIRC gs adjust the bbox when you convert eps - eps. Try gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=new.eps old.eps What about this? #!/bin/sh # eps2eps -- in order to correct bounding box # $Id: eps2eps,v 1.3 2000/10/29 23:38:18 matej Exp $ # $Log: eps2eps,v $ # Revision 1.3 2000/10/29 23:38:18 matej # TMP setting in true side of if. # # Revision 1.2 2000/10/29 23:35:34 matej # Correction of if command -- shit! # # Revision 1.1 2000/10/29 23:28:59 matej # Initial revision # if [ -z $2 ] then TMP=` mktemp /tmp/eps2eps.XX ` cp $1 $TMP INPUT=$TMP OUTPUT=$1 else INPUT=$1 OUTPUT=$2 fi gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=$OUTPUT $INPUT trap "rm $TMP* 2/dev/null" 0
Re: problems with .eps-files
IIRC gs adjust the bbox when you convert eps - eps. Try gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=new.eps old.eps What about this? #!/bin/sh # eps2eps -- in order to correct bounding box # $Id: eps2eps,v 1.3 2000/10/29 23:38:18 matej Exp $ # $Log: eps2eps,v $ # Revision 1.3 2000/10/29 23:38:18 matej # TMP setting in true side of if. # # Revision 1.2 2000/10/29 23:35:34 matej # Correction of if command -- shit! # # Revision 1.1 2000/10/29 23:28:59 matej # Initial revision # if [ -z $2 ] then TMP=` mktemp /tmp/eps2eps.XX ` cp $1 $TMP INPUT=$TMP OUTPUT=$1 else INPUT=$1 OUTPUT=$2 fi gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=$OUTPUT $INPUT trap "rm $TMP* 2/dev/null" 0
Re: problems with .eps-files
> IIRC gs adjust the bbox when you convert eps -> eps. Try > gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=new.eps old.eps What about this? #!/bin/sh # eps2eps -- in order to correct bounding box # $Id: eps2eps,v 1.3 2000/10/29 23:38:18 matej Exp $ # $Log: eps2eps,v $ # Revision 1.3 2000/10/29 23:38:18 matej # TMP setting in true side of if. # # Revision 1.2 2000/10/29 23:35:34 matej # Correction of if command -- shit! # # Revision 1.1 2000/10/29 23:28:59 matej # Initial revision # if [ -z $2 ] then TMP=` mktemp /tmp/eps2eps.XX ` cp $1 $TMP INPUT=$TMP OUTPUT=$1 else INPUT=$1 OUTPUT=$2 fi gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=$OUTPUT $INPUT trap "rm $TMP* 2>/dev/null" 0
problems with .eps-files
I apologize for asking questions not Lyx specific, but may be somebody can help me: *Problem 1* I am using a program TechPlot which produces diagrams (vectorgraphics). It exports the file also as eps. However, I am having problems with the bounding box. Some of the figures overlay the horizontal line of my (fancy style) header or sometimes even the text in the header. How can I trim the figure to avoid it? I used Roger William´s proposal: # I've found that the easiest thing is usually to view the PS file with gv or another PostScript previewer, use the cursors to identify the X and Y extents of the portion of the figure you wish to use, and then use your favourite text editor to edit the "%%BoundingBox:" comment in the PS file (by convention, it'll be near the top; if it's not there, add one). This step usually takes all of about 30 seconds per figure... -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts wireless * datacomm * DSP * ATE tel +1 508 947-5585 * fax +1 508 861-0278 * http://www.coelacanth.com/ # but it does not help (i.e. overlay still there or even worse). *Problem 2* When I view my book.ps under ghostview, it stops displaying the pages before the end. I traced the first stop to a figure which is quite large (above 2 MB), but there are figures which are larger and which are displayed alright. Rerunning gv after having taken this figure out stops again before the end of the document. Before I try to trace the stop to figures, I would like to know whether I have some way of checking the error messages. I used dvips after exporting the .tex from lyx but there was no error message until the end of the document (about 300 pages, 300 figures). -- Wolfgang Engelmann Physiologische "Okologie der Pflanzen Institut f"ur Botanik Universit"at T"ubingen Auf der Morgenstelle 1 D72076 TUEBINGEN (Germany) Tel 07071-29-76162 privat 07071-68324 or 68325 Fax 07071-29-5635 EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] *time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana*
Re: problems with .eps-files
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, I am having problems with the bounding box. Some of the figures overlay the horizontal line of my (fancy style) header or sometimes even the text in the header. How can I trim the figure to avoid it? IIRC gs adjust the bbox when you convert eps - eps. Try gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=new.eps old.eps *Problem 2* When I view my book.ps under ghostview, it stops displaying the pages before the end. View it in gs (running from a terminal) and take a look at the output. gs filename.ps -- Philipp Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems with .eps-files
I apologize for asking questions not Lyx specific, but may be somebody can help me: *Problem 1* I am using a program TechPlot which produces diagrams (vectorgraphics). It exports the file also as eps. However, I am having problems with the bounding box. Some of the figures overlay the horizontal line of my (fancy style) header or sometimes even the text in the header. How can I trim the figure to avoid it? I used Roger William´s proposal: # I've found that the easiest thing is usually to view the PS file with gv or another PostScript previewer, use the cursors to identify the X and Y extents of the portion of the figure you wish to use, and then use your favourite text editor to edit the "%%BoundingBox:" comment in the PS file (by convention, it'll be near the top; if it's not there, add one). This step usually takes all of about 30 seconds per figure... -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts wireless * datacomm * DSP * ATE tel +1 508 947-5585 * fax +1 508 861-0278 * http://www.coelacanth.com/ # but it does not help (i.e. overlay still there or even worse). *Problem 2* When I view my book.ps under ghostview, it stops displaying the pages before the end. I traced the first stop to a figure which is quite large (above 2 MB), but there are figures which are larger and which are displayed alright. Rerunning gv after having taken this figure out stops again before the end of the document. Before I try to trace the stop to figures, I would like to know whether I have some way of checking the error messages. I used dvips after exporting the .tex from lyx but there was no error message until the end of the document (about 300 pages, 300 figures). -- Wolfgang Engelmann Physiologische "Okologie der Pflanzen Institut f"ur Botanik Universit"at T"ubingen Auf der Morgenstelle 1 D72076 TUEBINGEN (Germany) Tel 07071-29-76162 privat 07071-68324 or 68325 Fax 07071-29-5635 EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] *time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana*
Re: problems with .eps-files
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, I am having problems with the bounding box. Some of the figures overlay the horizontal line of my (fancy style) header or sometimes even the text in the header. How can I trim the figure to avoid it? IIRC gs adjust the bbox when you convert eps - eps. Try gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=new.eps old.eps *Problem 2* When I view my book.ps under ghostview, it stops displaying the pages before the end. View it in gs (running from a terminal) and take a look at the output. gs filename.ps -- Philipp Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems with .eps-files
I apologize for asking questions not Lyx specific, but may be somebody can help me: *Problem 1* I am using a program TechPlot which produces diagrams (vectorgraphics). It exports the file also as eps. However, I am having problems with the bounding box. Some of the figures overlay the horizontal line of my (fancy style) header or sometimes even the text in the header. How can I trim the figure to avoid it? I used Roger William´s proposal: # I've found that the easiest thing is usually to view the PS file with gv or another PostScript previewer, use the cursors to identify the X and Y extents of the portion of the figure you wish to use, and then use your favourite text editor to edit the "%%BoundingBox:" comment in the PS file (by convention, it'll be near the top; if it's not there, add one). This step usually takes all of about 30 seconds per figure... -- Roger Williams finger me for my PGP public key Coelacanth Engineering Incconsulting & turnkey product development Middleborough, Massachusetts wireless * datacomm * DSP * ATE tel +1 508 947-5585 * fax +1 508 861-0278 * http://www.coelacanth.com/ # but it does not help (i.e. overlay still there or even worse). *Problem 2* When I view my book.ps under ghostview, it stops displaying the pages before the end. I traced the first stop to a figure which is quite large (above 2 MB), but there are figures which are larger and which are displayed alright. Rerunning gv after having taken this figure out stops again before the end of the document. Before I try to trace the stop to figures, I would like to know whether I have some way of checking the error messages. I used dvips after exporting the .tex from lyx but there was no error message until the end of the document (about 300 pages, 300 figures). -- Wolfgang Engelmann Physiologische "Okologie der Pflanzen Institut f"ur Botanik Universit"at T"ubingen Auf der Morgenstelle 1 D72076 TUEBINGEN (Germany) Tel 07071-29-76162 privat 07071-68324 or 68325 Fax 07071-29-5635 EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] *time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana*
Re: problems with .eps-files
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >However, I am having problems with the bounding box. Some of the >figures overlay the horizontal line of my (fancy style) header or >sometimes even the text in the header. How can I trim the figure >to avoid it? IIRC gs adjust the bbox when you convert eps -> eps. Try gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=new.eps old.eps >*Problem 2* When I view my book.ps under ghostview, it stops >displaying the pages before the end. View it in gs (running from a terminal) and take a look at the output. gs filename.ps -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
