[OS X TeX] BBOX for GS 7.05

[Francesco Costanzo]

On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 08:30 AM, Sam Broderick wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
> Recently I asked about the device bbox, but no one answered. I'm asking
> again in the hopes that someone can help. Or at least direct me 
> further.
>
> I rely on this following little feature heavily for my Ph.D. thesis:
>
>     gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox FILENAME.pdf
>
> The device bbox for GS seems to have vanished between GS 6.01 and 
> 7.05! Is
> this specific to Gerben's distro or am I just SOL? Is there any way to 
> get
> bbox as a device for 7.05
>

In my previous e-mail message I forgot to mention that Gary Gray and I 
have written an AppleScript that, starting from a filename.ps file 
containing, say, a figure on a single page, turns said file into a 
corresponding filename.eps file as well as a filename.pdf file both of 
which have bounding boxes obtained via the "ps2epsi" script. If this 
might be of interest, we would be glad to distribute the script.


-- 
Best Regards,
Francesco Costanzo
Associate Professor

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