[OS X TeX] Include a certain PDF Page as Picture or all at once

[Maarten Sneep]

On 17 apr 2004, at 14:58, Ross Moore wrote:

> On 17/04/2004, at 10:24 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>> along with the pdfpages package (which will allow you to select one 
>> page at a time), you can use a slight detour through ghostscript to 
>> separate the pages into includable graphics with the right bounding 
>> box. This requires that the pages only contain what you want (no page 
>> numbers &c).
>
> Why take this kind of circuitous route via .eps ?

Because it sets the bounding box to the tightest bounding box around 
the contents of the page, without fiddling with numbers. Actually, the 
second use is much more important for met: replacing the fonts with 
their outlines (using the -dNOCACHE option of gs) for submitting 
metapost based figures for publication.

Maarten

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