[OS X TeX] How to convert eps w/bounding box to pdf retaining Bbox info

[Chris Goedde]

On Aug 10, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Markus Hänchen wrote:

>
> The only work-around I have found is to define a different document  
> size, be it in Illustrator or when creating a pdf directly out of  
> Matlab (there one is limited to a number of fixed paper sizes)  
> before saving as a pdf. This is quite cumbersome.
>
> Is there a better way to produce high-quality graphs with pdflatex  
> without going the route of high-resolution bitmaps, especially for  
> graphs coming from Igor or Matlab?

Try epstopdf. I do the following in Matlab. First I print with the - 
depsc2 driver [e.g. print('-depsc2', 'filename.eps')] and then I do:

system('PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"; export PATH; /usr/local/teTeX/ 
bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/epstopdf --outfile ''filename.pdf''  
''filename.eps''');

I forget exactly why I put the path stuff in there.

-- 
Chris Goedde


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