[pdftex] pdfTeX 1.00a: Problems with png images

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:37:41PM +0100, Christian Leutloff wrote:
>
> > Yes, you're right. But I haven't found a way from PowerPoint Slides
> > to PDF
> so dont use Powerpoint:-}
>
> >  You can print from PPT to a postscript file. Then the problem
> > is cutting the white border and save the file as PDF
>
> make PDF, then edit the PDF in Acrobat to crop down to what you like.
> or make PS, and ask GS to calculate the bounding box (several
> scripts out there to do the job)

and in recent gs, gs -sDEVICE=bbox does the job.  Somehow I missed that
for a while, so it may help others to know of it.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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