[OS X TeX] Re: dvipdf vs. dvipdfm vs. dvipdfmx

Stephen Moye stephenmoye at cox.net
Mon Nov 28 00:33:08 CET 2005


On Nov 27, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 27.11.2005 um 22:43 schrieb Stephen Moye:
>
>> So far, I seem to prefer epstopdf because it seem to produce a pdf  
>> that is cropped to the same size as the eps. So far I have not  
>> found the proper incantation to make ps2pdf do the same thing --  
>> any suggestions?
>>
>
> man gs would point you to -sPAPERSIZE= ...

Well, yes, if you knew the size of the eps. But, given that the size  
of the eps is given in the BoundingBox comment I should have thought  
that this could be handled automatically by ps2pdf in the same way  
that epstopdf does.

SGM
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