From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35581 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Hagmann?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: placefigure Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:46:47 +0200 Message-ID: <46AA0557.5060307@unibas.ch> References: <68c491a60707240703l23e06bd9m5aac91f4a1ec958f@mail.gmail.com> <46A8D4FF.1060004@gmx.net> <46A8DEC5.1050103@gmx.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185547583 18821 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2007 14:46:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:46:23 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 27 16:46:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IER4z-0007PT-Fv for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:46:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2A61FC5D; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:46:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29627-07-5; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:45:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23AD61FC32; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:45:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22051FC32 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:45:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29645-01-9 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:45:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balu3.urz.unibas.ch (balu3.urz.unibas.ch [131.152.1.57]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C880C1FC21 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:45:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from bonasa.local ([131.152.79.98]) by balu3.urz.unibas.ch (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6REjrhK030243 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:45:53 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) In-Reply-To: X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.3.2 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35581 Archived-At: 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 >: > > 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!) :) > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 >>: > >> > >> 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 > >> = > _____________________________________________________________________= ______________ > >> 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 > >> = > _____________________________________________________________________= ______________ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> liesbethvanderplas@gmail.com > > > > >> www.wiskunde-interactief.nl > < > http://www.wiskunde-interactief.nl> > >> > >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------= --- > >> > >> > _____________________________________________________________________= ______________ > > >> 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 > >> > _____________________________________________________________________= ______________ > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________= ______________ > > 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 > > > _____________________________________________________________________= ______________ > > > > _____________________________________________________________________= ______________ > 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 > _____________________________________________________________________= ______________ > > > > > -- = > liesbethvanderplas@gmail.com > www.wiskunde-interactief.nl > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > 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-co= ntext > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > = -- = Prof.Dr.med. 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