[fptex] making *.eps

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:37:19AM +0100, Cristian Battaglia wrote:

> -I use epstopdf to convert the .eps to .pdf.
> The problem is that the pdf imagine is now printed again on A4 format. So

No, epstopdf uses the information %%BoundingBox:... for the media size.

> i tried by using option -exact of epstopdf, the message I got is:
>   "there are no bounding box"  (or something like that)

-exact means, that %%ExactBoundingBox is used instead of %%BoundingBox.
In normal cases you do not have %%ExactBoundingBox.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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