Have you tried pdfcrop ? It computes margin automatically, you could then
transfer the file back to eps.
David
PDFCROP 1.5, 2004/06/24 - Copyright (c) 2002, 2004 by Heiko Oberdiek.
Syntax: pdfcrop [options] <input[.pdf]> [output file]
Function: Margins are calculated and removed for each page in the file.
Options: (defaults:)
--help print usage
--(no)verbose verbose printing (false)
--(no)debug debug informations (false)
--gscmd <name> call of ghostscript (gs)
--pdftexcmd <name> call of pdfTeX (pdftex)
--margins "<left> <top> <right> <bottom>" (0 0 0 0)
add extra margins, unit is bp. If only one number is
given, then it is used for all margins, in the case
of two numbers they are also used for right and
bottom.
--(no)clip clipping support, if margins are set (false)
--(no)hires using `%%HiResBoundingBox' (false)
instead of `%%BoundingBox'
--papersize <foo> parameter for gs's -sPAPERSIZE=<foo>,
use only with older gs versions <7.32 ()
Examples:
pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pdf
2008/2/29, Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Michael Hearne apparently wrote:
> > I gave this a shot, and eps2eps seems not to have any effect on the
> > bounding box. I've done some experiments where I reduce the bounding
> > box by hand, which works really well - the only problem is I need a
> > way to determine where the edge of my plot really is.
>
>
> Hmmm. That is just what eps2eps should do.
> Perhaps there is something drawn outside what
> you believe your picture is?
>
> Here are more possibilities:
> http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/fom?_recurse=1&file=103#file_105
>
> Some Python code to exploit this GS ability is here:
> http://citadel.tistory.com/130
>
>
> Cheers,
> Alan Isaac
>
>
>
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