Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: AFMPATH environmental variable

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles  <ct...@cs...> writes:

    Charles> John, I'd second the request for direct EPS. Sometimes
    Charles> you can get away without the bounding box, but not
    Charles> always. I've been using ps2epsi to convert my matplot .ps
    Charles> files into .eps files (.epsi is .eps with a preview, but
    Charles> I don't need the preview). It does a good job of finding
    Charles> bounding boxes.  That's very important for running
    Charles> epstopdf on the images. That gives me pdf images so I can
    Charles> run pdflatex and generate a native PDF file from my
    Charles> LaTeX.

I'll see if I can get EPS into the ps backend in the near future.  As
far as I know, it should just be a matter of adding a bounding box.

Note that you don't need to first convert your images to PDF to
generate PDF from LaTeX (though a PDF backend is on the TODO list).  I
routinely generate PDF documents from LaTeX src with *.ps inputs as
follows

  # With recent version of gv (7.x or later) do
  > dvips -Pcmz -Pamz -G1 -Ppdf -o final3.ps final3.dvi
  > ps2pdf final3.ps

This will generate high quality PDF w/o the blurry appearance in
acroread that you sometimes see with PDF generated by LaTeX.

Hope this helps!
John Hunter