EPS bounding box problems
When I was writing my paper a faced some ugly problems with the eps files. Even though I change the bounding box of the files manually, as I explain before, some MATLAB figures didn’t show properly. Then searching for a solution I found a good tool to do the bounding box fixing automatically, epstool can do it with this simple line
epstool --copy --bbox input.eps output.eps
However, after this my problem remain. Then I could fix it by changing my latex statement when including the image, like this:
\includegraphics[clip]{figure}
The clip option makes 
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Thanks a lot! I spent a good few hours trying to fix bad bounding box caused by xmgrace plotting program. The clip option to \includegraphics solved my problem.
Thank you for your post. I’ve got into trouble after converting SPSS figures into eps with redundant text which I could not get rid of. Your post solved my problem.
I’m glad it helps.
Mate,
Thanks!
Though my figure shows correct bounding box its just not reflected in Latex document.
Tried the below syntaxes,
%\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{figures/graph_sk}
%\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{figures/graph_sk}
%\includegraphics[width=0.5\columnwidth]{figures/graph_sk}
%\resizebox{0.5\columnwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{figures/graph_sk}}
%\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{figures/graph_ska}
\includegraphics[clip, scale=0.4]{figures/graph_sk}
I spent a day trying to understand the problem and attempting to solve this but without a success till I bumped your blog.
Thanks for sharing your learning.
Hello Fabbri,
Could you please tell me where can I get your epstool program? It sounds great, and I am in a REAL crunch time!
Thanks much, Yair
Hello again, Fabbri,
I found, installed and ran it on an EPS file produced by a music program called Encore. Problem is that epstool tells me that my input file isn’t EPSF.
I wish I knew how EPSF differs from EPS. Is there a way to satisfy epstool so it doesn’t complain about that?
Thanks a lot, Yair
Did you check the Ghostscript page? The epstool is there for download.
Thank you very much for replying to me, adin.
I found, installed and ran it on an EPS file produced by a music program called Encore. The problem now is that epstool tells me that my input file isn’t EPSF.
I wish I knew how EPSF differs from EPS. Is there a way to satisfy epstool so it doesn’t complain about that?
I could attach this small file here if there was such a possibility.
Thanks a lot, Yair
Try the one I give you in the link. That is the official one, maybe the one you obtain in that music program has some differences, or is tuned for a different purpose.
Thank you so much !!!