[OS X TeX] ai, eps, pdf and TeXShop

[Themis Matsoukas]

Yes, I've done this but it has some drawbacks and it has not become  
part of my standard workflow:

1. When you change the page size to be just big enough for the  
graphic, Illustrator positions the page not around the graphic but in  
the middle of the window. Then you have to move the graphic into the  
page, manually.

2. If you have graphics that contain arrows and you move them as a  
group while working with the "snap to grid" option on, the alignment  
with grid is messed up. That's because lines with arrows that were  
lying along grid lines before the move are placed in between gridlines.

3. If the graphic grows in size, you need to manually readjust the  
size of the page.


Themis Matsoukas
matsoukas at psu.edu



On Oct 19, 2007, at 1:04 PM, William Adams wrote:

> On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
>
>> I normally save illustrator files as eps, then have TS do the  
>> conversion to pdf (if I save to pdf in illustrator, I get a  
>> graphic whose bounding box is the size of the page, not the size  
>> of the graph).
>
> Just change the size of the page to match that of the graphic. The  
> nice thing 'bout doing this is it's more precise and you can be  
> certain of the size and the placement of the graphic against the  
> crop box.
>
> William
>
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> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
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