Re: [Gnuplot-info] Attach preview for gnuplot eps files to be viewed inWORD

[jfcarrol <jfc...@ui...>]

My apologies, I was attempting to save line space. (note I am using gnuplot
4.2.0)

mach-130:~/Desktop apple$ epstool --test-eps -b Fig1_TGA.eps
Fig1_TGA_out.eps

DSC Warning
At line 5750:
   %%EndProlog

%%BeginProcSet: / %%EndProcSet
The number of Begin and End comments do not match.

'OK' or 'Cancel' will ignore this mismatch.

Can't use --bbox with this command.  Ignoring --bbox.
"gs"  -dNOEPS -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNODISPLAY  "/tmp/gsviewqxInIl"
Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17)
Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading StandardSymL font from /sw/share/ghostscript/fonts/s050000l.pfb...
1788576 463329 1637348 344504 1 done.

EPSWARN PASS

"gs"  -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=3Dbbox   -c "<</PageSize [9400 9400]
/PageOffset [3000 3000]>> setpagedevice" -f "/tmp/gsviewhysBdB"
Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17)
Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading StandardSymL font from /sw/share/ghostscript/fonts/s050000l.pfb...
1811988 486309 1637348 346244 1 done.
%%BoundingBox: 3054 3048 3412 3293
%%HiResBoundingBox: 3054.491907 3048.731907 3411.107896 3292.595900

File has   %%BoundingBox: 50 50 410 302
Correct is %%BoundingBox: 54 48 412 293
File bounding box needs to be larger
PostScript appears well behaved.
File claims to be EPS.
FAIL: File does not comply with EPS specification.
Failed


Hans-Bernhard Br=C3=B6ker-2 wrote:
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> jfcarrol wrote:
>> I am using gnuplot on a OSX 10.4. (granted I usually place all my
>> graphics in
>> LaTex but unfortunately I need to do this one in WORD) I recognize that
>> when
>> I import the eps files to WORD there is no preview file in the eps
>> gnuplot
>> file and the figure will appear upon printing to a postscript printer.
>> Again
>> unfortunately, my fellow colleagues, first see this as a WORD error and
>> after explaining it to them they want it fixed so they don't have to
>> print
>> out the document everytime.
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> I seem to recall having used ps2epsi for that purpose, quite a while ago.
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>> I have been trying to use the epstool utility app, but when I run a
>> "epstool
>> --test-eps *.eps *_out.eps" it indicates:
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>> PostScript appears well behaved.
>> File claims to be EPS.
>> FAIL: File does not comply with EPS specification.
>> Failed
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> That doesn't reproduce here (official MS Windows binary of gnuplot,=20
> Cygwin binary of epstool 3.08). More to the point, there was a whole lot=
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> more output than just 4 lines.
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> You'll have to prepare a reproducible test case before this can be=20
> investigated further.
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>> I have tried to use several other options (such as gs), but the error
>> seems
>> to originate from the gnuplot term postscript. How does one make the
>> export
>> from gnuplot comply within EPS specifications? I thought once a file is
>> eps
>> it should be "univerisal" in some sense?=20
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>> Normally my term is set to: set term poscript eps enhanced, but I have
>> also
>> tried, set term postscript enhanced and convert the files (gs again) to
>> eps,
>> but I receive the same errors when I try to attach the preview file with
>> epstool.
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>> I have read at the other forums, google groups, that OMniGraffle is
>> another
>> option, but it seems like epstool shoud be the quick route. Something
>> seems
>> to wrong from the eps output from gnuplot????
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>> THanks,
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