Re: eps-files in MikTex 2.9

Am Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:08:58 +0100 schrieb Hans Block:

> I have used eps-files many times extensively during many years.
> (They come from figures in Excel, printed to files by a driver
> for some Postscript printer.) 
 
 
 
> By GSview, going from PS to EPS, a bounding box has been found
> which excludes white space outside the picture. With MikTex 2.8
> using the compiler XeLaTex, the bounded graphics was included and
> the pictures became correct after typesetting. 


> Now I tested MikTex 2.9 with the same EPS-files. Now the size of
> the pictures was not recognized, but MikTex 2.9 seemed to believe
> that they had size A4. 
 
> 
> Now I ask:
> ·        Could I change parameters and get correct results in MikTex 2.9?
> 
> ·        Does MikTex not accept EPS-files any longer?
> 
> ·        Is this a bug in Miktex 2.9?

It impossible to answer your question without a minimal example and
one of the problematic eps-files.

But in my experience such problems are due in most cases to faulty
eps-files. ps to eps from ghostscript does not create in all cases
correct eps files:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsviewen.htm#PS_to_EPS


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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