[pdftex] Gnuplot LaTeX output with pdfLaTeX?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

Thierry Bouche <thierry.bouche at ujf-grenoble.fr>:
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> Le mercredi 19 février 2003 à 17:34:31, Magnus Hetland écrivit :
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> MLH> Has anyone had any experience with using Gnuplot LaTeX output with
> MLH> pdfLaTeX? The basic output is an EPS picture that is included in a
> MLH> LaTeX picture environment (which is, again, included in the document
> MLH> proper). It's easy enough to convert the EPS to PDF, but i've been
> MLH> having problems with offsets etc. -- I guess perhaps my conversion has
> MLH> fouled up the bounding box.
> 
> usually, using epstopdf makes a PDF with correct bounding box.
> 
> I have no experience with gnuplot but with xfig latex/eps, converting
> the eps to pdf with epstopdf mainly did the trick.

Thanks -- I don't remember what I used previously (ps2pdf, perhaps?)
but I tried epstopedf now -- and it almost worked. The bounding box is
now much better but for some of the figures things still aren't quite
right. The graphics seem to be shifted a little, and parts (one of the
outer edges, that is, about one point's worth) have been clipped. I
suppose this may be due to a faulty BoundingBox from Gnuplot, but that
still doesn't quite explain how dvips is able to handle it
flawlessly...

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