[pstricks] problem with dvips to use pdftricks

[Franco Bagnoli]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Henry Proudhon wrote:

> dvips -E -o manual-figxx.eps manual-figxx.dvi
> 
> I obtain all the files by running my script but each pdf file has a wrong
> bounding box.

The -E option of dvips computes the bounding box based on the placement of 
text, disregarding graphics. A simple way of "forcing" the right bounding 
box is to place (rput) a white dot (or other textual element) at the 
opposite corners of drawing. Then dvips works right. 

for what concerns pdftrick, you can also use pstricks, compile the file 
using 

dvips -Ppdf -z -o file.ps 

and then convert the resulting file to pdf with 
ps2pdf. In this way you do not need to use write18

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