Clipping

Clipping

[David Arnold]

All,

Suppose I have an eps file and I open it in an ascii editor and adjusting
the bounding box by hand. Will ConTeXt recognize my changes, or is there
some additional setting I have to set when placing my figure?

I seem to recall that epsf required I turn on a switch in this situation,
something like clipping=on or some such thing.

Re: Clipping

[Hans Hagen]

David Arnold wrote:

> Suppose I have an eps file and I open it in an ascii editor and adjusting
> the bounding box by hand. Will ConTeXt recognize my changes, or is there
> some additional setting I have to set when placing my figure?

It depends. When you use this method to get rid of white space, it
works, otherwise you need to define a clip path and clip the thing. A
good alternative is: distill, clip in exchange, and export to eps. 

> I seem to recall that epsf required I turn on a switch in this situation,
> something like clipping=on or some such thing.

In pdftex mode clipping is supported (\clip), either by grid (clip cell
2,3) oe by width/height and offset. In dvi mode, I (taco) still has to
fix some save/restore problem. 

Hans

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