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

[André Bellaïche]

Le 10 août 06 à 17:17, Markus Hänchen a écrit :

> Thanks for all replies. I've got it working with Acrobat 7 or  
> Distiller 7 as well as epstopdf (Preview chokes, and Illustrator CS  
> creates A4 files).
>
> General question, what is the advantage of pdflatex compared to tex 
> +ghostscript, if every time I create a new graph, I first have to  
> save it as eps and than to convert it to a pdf (o.k. strictly  
> speaking this applies only to Igor graphs in my case since I can  
> automate it with Matlab as shown here)?
>
> One answer would be that compiling in Latex is much faster with  
> pdflatex than with tex+ghostscript (at least on my Powerbook where  
> I often wait several seconds just for the ghostscript part).


And what should you do if your file is already a PDF file (converted  
from JPEG via Photoshop), and \includegraphics cannot find the  
Bounding Box ?

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