Re: placefigure

["Jörg Hagmann" <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>]

I use Illustrator. That certainly works -- you can save the pictures as 
pdfs (it's Adobe, after all).

Liesbeth van der Plas wrote:
> Hello Patrick, Peter,..
>  
>
> The 3-step method doesn't work? I tried it over and over again.
>
> Changing the media size by hand does work if I guess the size of the 
> picture (I don't have an option bb or bounding box). I think I can 
> work with this method for the time being.
>
>  
>
> Do you know if this bounding box problem is caused by the fact that I 
> used Flash for making the picture? I mean, if I buy another vector 
> drawing program (Adobe Illustrator for instance), the problem doesn't 
> exist?
>
>  
>
> Using MetaPost means that I must first learn the MP-programming 
> language. I don't know if I have enough time for that. Or is there 
> another way?
>
>  
> Liesbeth
>
>  
> 2007/7/26, Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net <mailto:indiego@gmx.net>>:
>
>     Peter Rolf schrieb:
>     > Hi Liesbeth,
>     >
>     > There is a problem with the bounding box (bb) of the eps file.
>     Although
>     > gs shows it correctly (Info), it uses the media size (default A4) as
>     > border for the pdf.
>     >
>     > You can change the media size by hand (set it to bb), but it's less
>     > error prone to use "extract..." or "ps to eps" from the file menu.
>     >
>     sorry, this doesn't work. it seems, that i have made my tests with an
>     already modified (media size) eps graphic. so the only working way i
>     found, is to edit the media size.
>
>     menu "media"-->"user defined..."
>     set the values to the ones from the bounding box (hit "I" after
>     you have
>     loaded the gfx).
>
>     for your example:
>     BoundingBox 0 0 244 243
>     set the first value to 244pt, the second one to 243pt.
>     now the conversion should work (retested!) :)
>
>
>     <DEL>
>     > 1. open the eps file with gs
>     > 2. use "ps to eps" ( [x] automatically calculate ...] is set
>     here) and
>     > save in a different file
>     > 3. convert this new file to pdf. The resulting pdf should have the
>     > correct size.
>     >
>     <DEL/>
>
>     > Sorry, found no way to automatize it (I can't beleave this is
>     not possible).
>     >
>     > HTH, Peter
>     >
>     > BTW: why don't you use MetaPost?
>     >
>     >
>     > Liesbeth van der Plas schrieb:
>     >> I use Windows XP.
>     >>
>     >> 2007/7/26, Patrick Gundlach <patrick@gundla.ch
>     <mailto:patrick@gundla.ch> <mailto: patrick@gundla.ch
>     <mailto:patrick@gundla.ch>>>:
>     >>
>     >>     Hello Liesbeth,
>     >>
>     >>     > Yesterday I sent a few files, but I got a return that the
>     message
>     >>     body was
>     >>     > too big.
>     >>     > Here are the three most important files from yesterday's map.
>     >>
>     >>     epstopdf breaks with this file. If, by chance, you use Mac
>     OS X, you
>     >>     can use 'pstopdf' (the distiller from adobe). Then the pdf
>     files have
>     >>     a tight bounding box.
>     >>
>     >>     Patrick
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