[Mac OS X TeX] Figure sizing in TeXShop

[Claus Gerhardt]

This approach works for me: Saving graphics with Illustrator 9 as 
.eps, then, using the terminal with the command

epstopdf -hires file.eps


The option -hires is necessary to get the bounding box right.

Regards,

Claus






>On 2002.01.29, at 11:51, Ross Moore wrote:
>
>>
>>Hello Paul,
>>
>>>I have a basic question (is there a FAQ for this list somewhere?) about
>>>importing figures from Illustrator.  After generating the figures and
>>
>>Very timely...
>>
>>>saving them as pdf when I include them in a LaTeX document the borders
>>>are set for what appears to be the page size.  I use to fix this in
>>
>>This happens upon "Save as PDF" from Illustrator 9 and 10.
>>
>>>Illustrator 9 by redefining the page size to the size of the figure (or
>>>slightly larger) and this worked fine.  In Illustrator X (the Japanese
>>>version just came out a couple of weeks ago) this fix no longer seems to
>>>work.  How can I get the figures to include correctly in TeXShop (LaTeX)
>>>without inappropriate white space?
>>
>>2 ways, that I know of:
>>
>>  1.  convert the .eps to PDF using some other program; e.g.
>>
>>    Acrobat Distiller  -- this gets it "right"
>>or
>>    Ghostscript (e.g. via ps2pdf, epstopdf, or other script)
>
>  I tried this -- doesn't work with X in my limited trials (this is 
>with ps2pdf).  I thought I remembered eps2pdf fixing this problem, 
>but it doesn't seem to be distributed with teTeX anymore.  I would 
>be grateful if someone could state which version of eps2pdf would 
>work and what distribution to use.
>>
>>  2. open the bad PDF with Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader)
>>     go to the  Document:Crop Pages..  menu option
>>     check  "Remove White Margins"
>>     then click "OK"
>>     now save the modified PDF, it will have the correct size.
>
>I thought of this and tried it.  It certainly looks fine in Acrobat, 
>but when I attempted to import the file back into Illustrator for 
>some touchup, the line sizes where all incorrect.  It appears that 
>the decimal point was lost - so that 1.5 pt lines became 15 pt.
>
>  I was hoping the trim option in includegraphics of pdftex would do 
>the trick, but it doesn't seem to be able to handle the large trim 
>that is necessary.
>
>>(Thanks to Hans Hagen for this tip.)
>>
>>
>>Doubtless there are other methods as well.
>>
>>It may even be possible to hand-edit the /MediaBox
>>in the PDF to match the  %%BoundingBox of the .eps
>>  **provided** you keep the total number of characters the same.
>>  --- I don't recommend trying this. :-)
>>
>>>...   By the way -- whose bug is this -
>>>Adobe or pdftex?
>>
>>It is Adobe's bug.
>>(We told them about it 2 weeks ago, along with several other bugs.)
>>
>>The following is a prototype for a site being setup for recording bugs
>>in Adobe software that affect TeX users:
>>
>>    http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~ross/Adobe/AdobeBugs/
>>
>>Contributions are sought.
>>
>
>
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>
>>	Ross Moore
>>   \\
>
>Thanks for the help.  I wish it were as easy as it appears (at 
>first) to be.  eps figures are actually easier to use for this 
>reason.
>
>
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