[OS X TeX] trim pdf figures

[Alan Curtis]

On Jul 7, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Nigel King wrote:

> Hi Ross,
> (sorry about mislaid late posting)
> After much fiddling through many Mathematica versions 2-5 I find that 
> the onlyreally satisfactory output from Mathematica 5 for including in 
> ConTeXt is
> Export["fname,eps",graph,"EPS"]
> and then converting that to pdf with epstopdf. In this case I get no
> error messages, the fonts seem to be correct, and the page is cropped
> to the size specified.
>
> (I wish there was a way to command the epstopdf bit from within 
> Mathematica to automate the process further.)
>
> Nigel
>

I don't know anything about ConTeXt, but does \usepackage{epstopdf} 
work? (Or something similar?) You then don't need to worry about 
explicitly converting all the eps files, it's automated within the TeX 
process.

Alan

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