[fptex] Re: Get an eps by Ghostview

[Cristian Battaglia]

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From: "Cristian Battaglia" <cristianbattaglia at katamail.com>
To: "Cristian Battaglia" <cristianbattaglia at katamail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Get an eps by Ghostview


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Cristian Battaglia
> To: fpTeX
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 7:46 PM
> Subject: Get an eps by Ghostview
>
>
> Good evening to every one!
>
> I'll try to be concise: I wanna make a "good" eps with ghostview, that's
my
> problem:
> -I begin from a single ps page;
> -I use PS to EPS of Ghostview;
> -Ghost propertly shows the eps image.
>
> Now I need to insert it (by LaTeX obviously). I put a frame around the
image
> in order to controll better bounding box, there are some cases:
> 1. LaTeX=>DVI: Windvi sets the image correctly;
> 2. LaTeX+dvips: Ghost view sets the image correctly but one line of the
> frame is             always hidden;
> 3. LaTeX+dvipdfm: the frame is correctly positioned but the image is moved
> out of it         (it's sticked at the left margin and some centimeters
> downwards);
> 4. PDFLaTeX+epstopdf.sty: the frame have the dimension of an A4 paper
sheet,
> image is position in the center of the frame.
>
> If I use Acrobat5 to produce the eps I have:
> 1. perfect;
> 2. perfect;
> 3. like above!
> 4. perfect (also using {epstopdf});
>
> It's clear that, until now, I've always used Acrobat5. I hope someone help
> me to fix this bugs because I'm not so expert to do it on my own.
>
>                                                                  Thanks in
> advance
>                                                                   Cristian
> Battaglia
>
> (P.S.: I tried to insert the eps made by Ghost into Word, I added Windows
> Metafile preview too, but Word says there's no preview in the image.)
>
> So far...
>
> 1. I installed GIMP;
> 2. I saved image directly in .eps;
> 3. I inserted .eps by LaTeX;
>
> This are the result:
> 1. dvi: OK;
> 2. dvdips: OK;
> 3 dvipdm: image is still not set in the right place;
> 4. PDFLaTEX: OK;
>
> I'm sure that dvipdfm has something wrong. The same test runs perfectly on
> MikTeX.
>
> If I try to clip a .eps by ghost, bounding box are set rightly and the
image
> is set in the right place but I can still watch at the rest, which I have
> cut, in the background of the .ps file (always MikTeX and fpTeX,
ghostscirpt
> 4 and 4.4).
> I find out something else too, I change, in advance configuration of
> PostScript printer, output postcript: encapsulated PostScript. So in this
> way PDFLaTeX works but neither dvi nor dvips works. So I've understood
that
> one of the reason of my failures was ps making.
>
>                                                        Good evening to
> everyone
>                                                              Cristian
> Battaglia
>
> (P.S I updeted fpTeX just one week ago, I don't know if the updated
dvipdfm
> on fpTeX is newer than the mine one.)
>
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