From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4400 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: ps2pdf Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:20:49 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010316152049.014dac50@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395071 25462 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:44:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4400 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4400 Hi, (since his name is in teh docs i'm sure that george white know the anser to this question -) when my collegue was distilling a 4 meg eps cmyk picture he got a 18 meg pdf file or 6 meg when downsampling, since i expect a smaller file, i tried ps2pdf on my machine and surprise: the image is now just over 2 meg [they all look the same in acrobat and all report the same size and depth however, "ps2pdf somefile.eps somefile.pdf" results in a file with a a4 boundingbox, so: what is the magic switch that lets this nice converter honor the boundinbox? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------