From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Apr 17 23:01:34 2006
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:01:34 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] bounding box in PostScript
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, David Allen wrote:

> When a graph is saved as PostScript, the bounding box is often too big.
> A consequence is that when the graph is included in a LaTeX document,
> the spacing does not look good.
> Is this a recognized problem? Is someone working on it? Could I help?

It's not really true.  The bounding box is of the figure region, and it is 
a design feature.  If the figure `region' that is too big for your 
purposes you need to adjust the margins.

Alternatively, there are lots of ways to set a tight bounding box: I tend 
to use the bbox device in gs.  But that often ends up with figures which 
do not align, depending on whether text has descenders.

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[Rd] bounding box in PostScript
Prof Brian Ripley