Re: st: Graphics translation: eps bounding box question

[Antoine Terracol <Antoine.Terracol@univ-paris1.fr>]

Roger Newson wrote:

> What version of GhostView/Script are you using? I use GSView Version 
> 4.2 (dated 7 Feb 2002), and it can handle non-integer bounding boxes 
> by converting them to integers for display purposes, although it 
> queries the user before doing so.

Roger,
You are right about recent versions of GSView/Script correctly handling 
non-integer boundig boxes (despites the error message).
However, it becomes more annoying when you start using tools such as 
epstool or eps2pdf  (which is a vital tool if you're using pdfTeX...), 
because they will refuse to work with non integer coordinates for the 
bounding box.
I think Statacorp should correct this 'bug'. For the time being, I have 
written a quick-and-dirty wrapper for -translate@Graph- which uses 
-file- to remove the trailing decimals from the coordinates.
If anyone on the list is interested, they can email me privately and I 
will send them the .ado file.

Best,
Antoine 

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