Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Adjust trim margin for eps2pdf

[NiallNixon]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with the my eps figures and the trimming them when they're converted to pdf. For some reason the eps figures are cropped to tightly which removes some of my figures. The plots are saved from Matlab.

I have tried saving the eps files differently, which didn't work and this kind of makes sense because the source files always look good. The only related post I could find was this: http://latex-community.org/forum/viewto ... =45&t=9559. And they only describe a different compile method which doesn't work for me. There must be an option in epstopdf to change the crop margin to be a little larger, anyone?

I'm using the ieeetran template with the graphicx package with option pdftex.

[Johannes_B]

Welcome,

first of all, you should get rid of option pdftex everywhere. It doesn't do any good.

Rename the figure to something else and try again, a decently updated TeX distribution should convert the image on the fly without you even noticing it.

[NiallNixon]

Thanks for your quick reply. Took away pdftex and renamed the image to try again. My latex is up to date. Still produces the same result.

Here's a code example of how to reproduce the problem:

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\documentclass[10pt,journal,compsoc]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure*}[h]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{hyp1_T}
  \caption{test}
\end{figure*}


\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

Hm, that really is an odd graphic. Have you tried exporting it once more with Matlab? Can Matlab export pdfs directly?

[NiallNixon]

Yes I have, in multiple ways, there's print and saveas commands in matlab and I have tried them both with different settings, no luck.

Used your second advice though and tried saving directly as pdf, don't know why I never tried that. The plots are good then, just lots of whitespace around the plot. But found a tool to crop the pdf's from within matlab and together with the trim function in latex, the figures are perfect now.

Thanks alot!