[Gllug] LateX/EPS/PS experts?

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 tet at accucard.com wrote:

>
>>I wrote my thesis in TeX a long time ago,
>>actually using a macro package called TEXSIS
>
>I typeset my girlfriend's thesis in LaTeX years ago, but unlike you,
>I didn't take the easy way out -- I wrote my own macros (although
>the University helpfully supplied some that were suitable for their
>submissions format, they weren't quite right for what we needed).
>
>>To get the figure sized correctly you can
>>play around with the BoundingBox
>
>Not a good idea. Change the scaling when you import the EPS than
>messing with the bounding box. When using groff, use arguments to
>PSPIC -- since I haven't included EPS in a LaTeX document since that
>thesis, I can't remember how you do it, but the basic idea's the same.
>Otherwise, you run the risk of overlaying your EPS with the text of
>your document. The bounding box is only a hint to applications that
>are embedding the document. Nothing stops the PostScript RIP from
>rendering outside that box. Change the box, and you break all the
>assumptions that the embedding application uses.

In my final year report for Uni, I used the following macro, which nicely
centered and scaled the figure to the page width:

\def\epsfig#1#2#3{
        \begin{figure}
                \begin{center}
                \leavevmode
                \hbox{
                        \epsfxsize=\linewidth
                        \epsffile{#1}
                }
                \end{center}
                \caption{#2}
                \label{#3}
        \end{figure}
}

This was using the epsf package.

The arguments are:
1) eps file
2) Caption for the figure
3) Label, for use with \ref{}

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>Tet
>
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