> The weird thing is that, as a postscript page, the viewers I've tried > render it correctly. But when converted to pdf *by the same software > that sees it correctly* (i.e. ghostscript) the top and bottom of the > page gets truncated. How can ghostscript know the correct page > boundaries to show it as a ps, but then pass the boundaries of the > included eps file as the boundaries of the page when it creates pdf? > Even if I tell it to create a4?
Different ghostscript devices (drivers) may produce slightly different results? I'm guessing. Conversion to pdf uses the pdfwrite device, screen display uses the x11 device. gv gets its size information from the DSC information in the PS, not from ghostscript. Interesting though that the pdfwrite output should produce such different results. What version ghostscript? > Also, if I don't split up the document into each page, every single > page of the generated pdf has the truncated boundaries, not just the > two pages that are the real problem. Some figure cropping spills over into each page. Should never happen of course. > (I'm so glad I > put the effort in way back when to learn the unix command line! Try > doing that in a GUI for a large document). Ack^3 > latex. But the latex source is not easily reconstructible, I think. Oh, even more interesting. That implies dvips, which doesn't ususally produce nonsense. Hm, I did have some trouble recently converting a dvips-generated PS from 1999 into PDF. Try with the last ghostscript 7.x (7.07) and the latest 8.x, if practical? If all else fails, work through the problematic EPS word by word :( Clipping instructions would be high on my list. Btw the PostScript Language Reference Manual is online. HTH, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
