[OS X TeX] trim pdf figures

[Marcelo LaFleur]

I use Apple's Preview. You can  select a box around the graphic and just
crop the page.





on 6/22/04 2:46 AM, Bruno Voisin at bvoisin at mac.com wrote:

> Le 22 juin 04, à 06:54, Alain Schremmer a écrit :
> 
>> When I create a figure in Intaglio, save it there in pdf, and drag it
>> to be "included" into my TeX file, TeXshop typesets the whole, mostly
>> blank Intaglio page.
>> 
>> Of course, I can trim each page down to the figure but, given the
>> number of different size figures I have, I would rather not.
>> 
>> I am told that this is not a problem with eps but I would rather stay
>> with pdf.
> 
> All the software that I know (Adobe Illustrator, Mathematica, etc.),
> that can export graphics to PDF format, export the graphics inside a
> page of size the current paper size. I just can't understand why this
> is so, since who needs a graphics on a mostly blank page? Is it only
> laziness from the software providers?
> 
> What I generally do is export to EPS format instead of PDF, then drag
> onto TeXShop (or apply epstopdf from the command line) to have the EPS
> file converted to PDF; I was doing the same before in Mac OS 9 with
> MacGSView. The PDF files produced in this way have the proper size of
> the graphics, not that of an A4 sheet.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Bruno Voisin
> 
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