I use Illustrator. That certainly works -- you can save the pictures as pdfs (it's Adobe, after all).
Liesbeth van der Plas wrote: > Hello Patrick, Peter,.. > > > The 3-step method doesn't work? I tried it over and over again. > > Changing the media size by hand does work if I guess the size of the > picture (I don't have an option bb or bounding box). I think I can > work with this method for the time being. > > > > Do you know if this bounding box problem is caused by the fact that I > used Flash for making the picture? I mean, if I buy another vector > drawing program (Adobe Illustrator for instance), the problem doesn't > exist? > > > > Using MetaPost means that I must first learn the MP-programming > language. I don't know if I have enough time for that. Or is there > another way? > > > Liesbeth > > > 2007/7/26, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > Peter Rolf schrieb: > > Hi Liesbeth, > > > > There is a problem with the bounding box (bb) of the eps file. > Although > > gs shows it correctly (Info), it uses the media size (default A4) as > > border for the pdf. > > > > You can change the media size by hand (set it to bb), but it's less > > error prone to use "extract..." or "ps to eps" from the file menu. > > > sorry, this doesn't work. it seems, that i have made my tests with an > already modified (media size) eps graphic. so the only working way i > found, is to edit the media size. > > menu "media"-->"user defined..." > set the values to the ones from the bounding box (hit "I" after > you have > loaded the gfx). > > for your example: > BoundingBox 0 0 244 243 > set the first value to 244pt, the second one to 243pt. > now the conversion should work (retested!) :) > > > <DEL> > > 1. open the eps file with gs > > 2. use "ps to eps" ( [x] automatically calculate ...] is set > here) and > > save in a different file > > 3. convert this new file to pdf. The resulting pdf should have the > > correct size. > > > <DEL/> > > > Sorry, found no way to automatize it (I can't beleave this is > not possible). > > > > HTH, Peter > > > > BTW: why don't you use MetaPost? > > > > > > Liesbeth van der Plas schrieb: > >> I use Windows XP. > >> > >> 2007/7/26, Patrick Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>: > >> > >> Hello Liesbeth, > >> > >> > Yesterday I sent a few files, but I got a return that the > message > >> body was > >> > too big. > >> > Here are the three most important files from yesterday's map. > >> > >> epstopdf breaks with this file. If, by chance, you use Mac > OS X, you > >> can use 'pstopdf' (the distiller from adobe). 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