Re: Saving graphics as EPS (Mathematica 3.0/HPUX)
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- Subject: [mg9146] Re: Saving graphics as EPS (Mathematica 3.0/HPUX)
- From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 03:37:49 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Chris Goedde wrote: > I'm using Mathematica 3.0 on and HPUX 10.20 box. I want to save some > graphics, generated with ContourPlot as EPS to include in a LaTeX > file. > > My first attempt was to use "Save Selection As -> EPS". This creates > an EPS file that produces...nothing. I know a fair bit about > postscript, so I poked around, tried various tricks (add a showpage, > etc), but I can't see any image. The file looks ok, lots of lineto's > and strokes, but even with ghostscript, I don't see anything. As far > as I can tell, it doesn't give any errors, but it doesn't seem to > render anything, either. > > My second attempt was to try "Save As Special -> TeX". This produces > a different EPS file, one that renders correctly with ghostscript. > Great. But, the file contains a totally bogus bounding box comment: > > %%BoundingBox: 101. 569. 4. 472. 468. > > All I can say about this is HUH?!? That line is invalid in two > different ways. Anyway, I can fix this by hand, so it's not a bad > problem. > > But my question remains: how do I get Mathematica 3.0 for HPUX to produce > valid EPS files for graphics? If you are using Mathematica 3.0.0.x (check the Help -> About Mathematica menu command to be sure), then you can find a fix for your problem at the Tech Support FAQ: http://www.wolfram.com/support/Graphics/Formats/EPS/FrontEndFix.html Since you're on a Unix system, you may need to ask your sysadmin to apply this fix since it involves replacing a file in the core Mathematica distribution. You can get a updates to TeXSave at URL: ftp://mathsource.com/pub/outgoing/TeXSave/ See the readme.txt file for instructions on installing the update. -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. http://www.wolfram.com/~paulh/ Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.