On 1/21/2009 4:52 PM ramirodsl apparently wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing a weird problem with the bounding box of my eps files.
> I have a script that produces my plots and saves them as eps files.
> For some reason the x coordinate of the bounding box is negative.
> 
> The bounding box of the files are: %%BoundingBox: -54 36 666 756
> 
> Then, when I try to print or show these files with gv they are clipped at
> the left side.


That seems just right: they should be clipped at the
page boundary.  This shoud *not* affect their inclusion
in a document, however, for correctly behaving applications.

Perhaps this is useful:
http://osdir.com/ml/python.pyx.users/2006-03/msg00022.html


> I found the translate command on the EPS file format specification, so I
> added: 54 0 translate to the eps header.
> Everything looked ok until I tried to include these files in a tex/ps
> document. Now they get clipped on the right side!

You would need to change the bounding box too!

I think eps2eps will do all this for you if you really want to.

Alan Isaac

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