Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ LaTeX ignores Bounding Box

[hendrix]

Hello,

I am experiencing a problem with EPS figures created from within a .pptx Powerpoint file. Please see the attached MWE and scroll to Figure 1 in the PDF.

I create the EPS file by printing to a postscript printer. I then add the bounding box using GSView 4.9 and it appears to be positioned properly. When the figure is added to a latex document (independent of document class) there is a white padding around the figure that blocks text and makes image scaling difficult. Inspection of the EPS file in a text editor indicates that the bounding box command is correctly referencing the proper coordinates as verified by viewing the image in GSView and positioning the cursor on each corner.

Could someone please advise on the best way to remedy this problem?

Thanks!

[localghost]

If you are running a common TeX distribution in its current version (MiKTeX 2.9, TeX Live 2010), you can compile this directly with PDFLaTeX. The EPS file will be converted "on the fly" to PDF. This works flawlessly for me (except for some warnings about overfull boxes) and the text isn't covered any more. And by the way, think about another solution for creating EPS files. There many tools that are much more sophisticated than P0werp0int.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[hendrix]

Great solution, the on-the-fly conversion worked great.

Thank you!

Scott

[kaiserkarl13]

Sorry to post to a "solved" thread, but for those that don't have on-the-fly capable interpreters:

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$ eps2pdf testFileA.eps
$ pdflatex testFile.tex

You'll also have to leave off the .eps extension in the file name (part of the \includegraphics command), since PDFLaTeX doesn't know how to read EPS files. The default extensions are given by \DeclareGraphicsExtension, which defaults to .eps,.ps for LaTeX and .pdf,.png,.jpg for PDFLaTeX, iirc.

I recall solving this problem another way about five years back, but I don't remember what I did (unless it was "convert them all to PDF and use PDFLaTeX, which I almost certainly did at some point anyway).

[localghost]

The epstopdf package would be another alternative for previous versions of the mentioned TeX distributions.