[Groff] Re: How to make EPS?

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Werner,

 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:

Another thing to note is that setting the MediaBox in the
PDF-file from the BoundingBox in the PS-file using -dEPSCrop
appears to work only when the "EPSF"-signature is present in
the first line of the PS-file.

And gs is correct doing so, since

says, in the section "Guidelines for Creating EPS Files":

 The two required DSC Header comments are



Thus, we have to add the following to the sed command line
 -e '/^%!PS-Adobe-3.0/s/$/ EPSF-3.0/'

You may check the results in attached file epstest2.tgz

(foo.eps shows OK too in Mac OS X Preview, but I am not
sure how that application works).

Please, compare the results with what is generated/shown in your environment.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

Encapsulated PostScript File Format Specification Version 3.0 %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 %%BoundingBox: llx lly urx ury Of the result files in that archive foo.png looks OK (no parts cut off from the letters).

2) If ps2epsi is used, bounding box seems to be too small.  See
   foo.epsi, foo_i.pdf, foo_i.png in the attached archive -
   something is cut off the bottom of the glyphs.

This looks like a bug in the ps2epsi script -- it seems as if the bbox
of the preview image is used (which is 1 pixel smaller vertically)
instead of the original one.  Please submit a bug report at
bugs.ghostscript.com (or check the bug database) and CC me.  BTW, it
fails with both gs 8.53 and 7.07.1.

Let us first see whet happens to an extremely simple ps file
in different environments (see attached file croptest.tgz).

             Sincerely, Michail

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epstest2.tgz
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