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

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 27, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:

>
> 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

Howdy,

The cropping done by epstopdf sometimes cuts off parts of glyphs that  
are outside their defined boxes (we've seen that with the original  
processing done by pdftricks). What seems to do a better job is to  
use pdfcrop on the pdf file produced.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


------------------------- Info --------------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
          & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/