sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu (02/02/90)
Greetings, I just installed psfig, the utility that allows one to embed postscript pictures into LaTeX. I am able to run through and print out the user's guide file as a sample. However, it took me a while for me to figure out how to print postscript files from Adobe Illustrator. I still don't know what to do with the files from MacDrawII and MacDraft. The problem is with the boundingbox being missing. Does anyone have any idea? In case someone is interested, here is what I figured out with Illustrator 88's postscript file captured by control-f on Mac. There are two lines starting with %%BoundingBox:. The first one looks like %%BoundingBox: ? ? ? ? But if you go down further in the file, you see another line that does contain the coordinates, for example: %%BoundingBox:213 345 305 408 Since there is no space between ":" and the first number, Psfig does not recognize this line. Thus if you run the file with LaTeX/Psfig, you get error messages about missing numbers, etc. If you copy the coordinates in the second line into the first, and add a space before the first number, then Psfig will work, though, you will see overlapped picture and text. Then I noticed a line like this: %%PageBoundingBox: 30 31 582 761 With a few tries, I found out you need to add the first two numbers, 30, 31, respectively to the first and third, and second and fourth number of the BoundingBox line. In this example, the result is %%BoundingBox: 243 376 335 439 And it works. Also, I am using VMS system and there is a form called Apple attachted to the printer queue. If I use print the final postscript file with print/form=apple, then I don't need to include the Mac.Prolog file. || Kang Sun [sun@yalevms.bitnet] || || Yale University, Dept.of Electr.Engin, New Haven, CT 06511-2157, USA || zWR.B34sQ'5g9$O5# # Ko?5
ief@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Alain Merigot) (02/05/90)
Here is the hack I use to include macdraw figures with psfig. I draw ON THE FIGURE a bounding box. Then, I save the figure in postscript (with clover-F). After, I use a (trivial) perl program that will 1) search the largest rectangle in the ps file. 2) write the coordinate of that rectangle as the figure bounding box, and kill the corresponding line. It *is* a hack, but it works perfectly well. Adding the bounding box when drawing the figure is not a real pain. There is another manipulation to do in the header. If you are interested, I can send you details (and the code). A. Merigot Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale Universite Paris Sud 91405 Orsay Cedex France ...uunet!mcvax!inria!iefups!am am%iefups.uucp@lri.lri.fr