meadows@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu (01/29/91)
I tried to incorporate a postscript figure in a LaTeX document today
using the \special{psfile="filename"} command. It ran through LaTeX and
DVIPS just fine, but when the output was printed, the figure was set in
the upper right hand corner of the page. It looks like it tried to use the
current position as coordinates 0,0 for the postscript figure. My question
is this: how can I reset the coordinates so the figure appears where I
want it to?
Howard
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***************************************************************************moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) (01/29/91)
Rather than using \special commands directly, may I suggest you use a package such as psfig? It will scan the PostScript for bounding box information, allow you to supply it in the \psfig command, supports scaling, etc. Think of psfig as high level language and \special as assembly and you get the idea. psfig works very nicely with Rokicki's dvips, too. Both are available on labrea.stanford.edu. -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu
eln272v@monu1.cc.monash.oz ( r lang) (01/30/91)
In article <4197@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, meadows@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu writes: > I tried to incorporate a postscript figure in a LaTeX document today > using the \special{psfile="filename"} command. It ran through LaTeX and > DVIPS just fine, but when the output was printed, the figure was set in > the upper right hand corner of the page. It looks like it tried to use the > current position as coordinates 0,0 for the postscript figure. It sure did! Read the dvips documentation on the \special command - there are hoffset and voffset keywords. Since you will need to work out values for hoffset and voffset, you may as well generate a %%BoundingBox for your file. A much better way to handle your problem is to use the \epsffile macro. Again, read the dvips documentation. The following is extracted from dvips.tex If the document lacks a bounding box altogether, one can be easily added. Simply print the file. Now, take a ruler, and make the following measurements. All measurements should be in PostScript units, so measure it in inches and multiply by 72. From the left edge of the paper to the leftmost mark on the paper is {\it llx}, the first number. From the bottom edge of the paper to the bottommost mark on the paper is {\it lly}, the second number. From the left edge of the paper to the rightmost mark on the paper is {\it urx}, the third number. The fourth and final number, {\it ury}, is the distance from the bottom of the page to the uppermost mark on the paper. Now, add a comment of the following form as the second line of the document. (The first line should already be a line starting with the two characters `{\tt \%!}'; if it is not, the file probably isn't PostScript.) \cmd{\%\%BoundingBox:\ {\it llx lly urx ury}} \noindent Or, if you don't want to modify the file, you can simply write these numbers down in a convenient place and use them when you import the graphic. If the document does not have such a bounding box, or if the bounding box is given at the end of the document, please complain to the authors of the software package that generated the file; without such a line, including PostScript graphics can be tedious. -- Russell Lang Email: rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au Phone: (03) 565 3460 Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Monash University, Australia