Re: eps-files in MikTex 2.9

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I am using Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, Service Pack 1.

> I had the enclosed Excel file

> poly.xls.

> I printed the figure by a Post Script driver to the file:

> figthree.eps.


Well if I investigate your eps as adviced in the page I already linked
to http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsviewen.htm#PS_to_EPS
then I get a lot of warnings:

Warning: EPS file must not use /setpagedevice
Warning: EPS file must not use /statusdict
%%[ ProductName: GPL Ghostscript ]%%
Warning: EPS file should be careful using /setmatrix
Warning: EPS file must not use /setpagedevice
Warning: EPS file must not use /setpagedevice
Warning: EPS file must not use /setpagedevice
Warning: EPS file must not use /setpagedevice
Warning: EPS file must not use /setpagedevice
Warning: EPS file should be careful using /setmatrix
Warning: EPS file must not use /setglobal
Warning: EPS file must not use /setglobal
Warning: EPS file must not use /initclip
Warning: EPS file must not use /initclip
Warning: EPS file must not use /initclip


So your eps is not an eps and you can't use reliably ps to eps with it.

Try instead the option convert of gsview and choose the driver
epswrite or pdfwrite. Or use some printer driver which can create pdf
directly. Or use a spreadsheet application which can save to pdf. 

If you create a pdf you will probably have to use pdfcrop afterwards
e.g. on the command line with:

pdfcrop figtopdf.pdf figtopdfcropped.pdf


I would advice you to create pdf's: xelatex has to convert eps files
at every compilation on-the-fly. This slow downs compilation. But
xelatex can include pdf's directly.





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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ulrike Fischer


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