Re: ps2pdf and the right output size

[Wouter Bergmann Tiest]

Hi mr/mrs Anonymous,

On 25 Aug 2009, at 20:16, address@hidden wrote:

> I've hacked up a script which gen's the PS, pulls out the  
> pageboundingbox X and Y sizes out of the PS, and then passes these  
> values to ps2pdf via the command line.
> This works ok but I'm wondering if there's a way to tell ps2pdf to  
> just set the pdf page size to the pageboundingbox X and Y sizes  
> defined in PS thus eliminating the need for me to determine these  
> and feed them to ps2pdf via the command line.


Apparently you have reimplemented the perl script "epstopdf" by  
Sebastian Rahtz et al. which does exactly that: extract the bounding  
box and create the right size PDF, see
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epstopdf/
Unfortunately, there is not a more elegant way. Even Adobe's own  
Distiller needs to be told the correct page size of the PDF when  
converting from PostScript. Incidentally, if you're on a Mac with OS- 
X, everything just works out of the box by opening your PS file in  
Preview and saving as PDF, or by using the command line program  
"pstopdf".

Regards,

Wouter Bergmann Tiest