Re: [Gnuplot-info] Re: Question on linestyles

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Dieter Jurzitza wrote:

> Converting gnuplot output from ps to pdf (set terminal postscript 
> enhanced ...) via ghostscript (either ps2pdf or better epstopdf) I found   
> that the default bounding box in XXX.ps out of gnuplot, XXX.ps being the 
> output causes somewhat too large distances between the figure and the 
> caption /and / or the preceeding text in TeX (matter of taste, though ...). 

Careful here.  "set term post enhanced" is not meant to give you any 
usable bounding box at all.  If you want a meaningful bounding box, you 
really should use the "eps" option.

> functionality. This script implies the usage of epstopdf, it does not work 
> with ps2pdf. You need both sed and ghostscript installed.

That seems overly complicated --- ghostscript already comes with a 
script that automatically calculates a "perfect" bounding box.  It's 
called ps2epsi, and I'm almost completely sure that other tools already 
exist which do similar work.  I.e. you could just ps2epsi | ps2pdf

OTOH, if what you want to produce is a PDF, why not just use the PDF 
terminal (assuming you're in a position to compile it in)?