[OS X TeX] OT: looking for a public-domain EPS file editor

André Bellaïche abellaic at math.jussieu.fr
Tue May 1 10:19:19 EDT 2007


Le 1 mai 07 à 15:38, William Adams a écrit :

> On May 1, 2007, at 9:15 AM, André Bellaïche wrote:
>
>> When you make a pdf file with Illustrator (Illustrator CS 2) and  
>> try to include it into a LaTeX file by using \includegraphics, you  
>> see that pdftex deals with it as if the page size was A4 or letter  
>> (something big, anyway). It cannot read the bounding box.
>
> Yes it can. It's reading the size as declared in the Document Setup  
> --- change that to match the graphic and you'll then get things to  
> match up.

Yes, but in a math paper (or an art book), all the sizes of  
illustrations use to be different.
>
> Unfortunately you can't script Document Setup (at least I've not  
> been able to using AI CS2), so you have to adjust every graphic by  
> hand. Once you've done this though, you can change your pdftex  
> setup so that it pulls in the .ai files (if you save your .ai files  
> as .pdf compatible).
>
> William
>
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> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
>
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