Re: [Matplotlib-users] Postscript bounding box calculations

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

>>>>> "matthew" == matthew arnison <ma...@ca...> writes:

    matthew> Hi, Currently matplotlib outputs postscript graphs which
    matthew> have no bounding box set. This means that by default they
    matthew> fill the whole page. If you want to include several plots
    matthew> in the same page in a document (because you generated
    matthew> them separately, or because the subplot output is a bit
    matthew> messy) then you have to manually crop each postscript
    matthew> graph. (Atleast that is my experience with LaTeX via lyx,
    matthew> Word is presumably similar.)

Hi Matthew, thanks for keeping the flame under my butt re EPS.  This
is something that has come up a number of times and isn't hard to
implement.  I just haven't taken the time to do it.  Work has kept me
pretty busy the last two weeks.

There was a discussion on this mailing list some time ago where
several workarounds were discussed - sourceforge archives are
currently down or I'd post a link.  I use the following: PS can be
included directly in LaTeX and sized

  \usepackage[dvips]{graphics}

  \newcommand{\dofig}[2]
  {\center{\scalebox{#1}{\includegraphics*{#2}}}} 

  \begin{figure}[t]
    \dofig{0.5}{somefile.ps}
    \caption{\footnotesize Insert your figure caption here}  
    \label{fig:figref}
  \end{figure}

0.5 is a scaling arg.  Don't know how to do it in lyx though.

Others use ps2eps or ps2epsi.

But I can get the eps thing done with little effort -- I already know
the bounding box, it's just a matter of detecting the extension and
adding one line of code to the PS output.  

Stay tuned!
John Hunter