Re: What to use to edit output after the fact?

[John Hawkinson]

Josiah Boothby <address@hidden> wrote on Fri, 21 Apr 2006
at 11:04:37 -0700 in <address@hidden>:


> Regarding the bit about file size: the eps file doesn't seem to
> include certain info, such as paper size; only the stuff about what
> gets printed gets in. Perhaps someone who knows more about postscript
> should talk about this since I don't really know what I'm talking
> about...

EPS files are "Encapsulated PostScript" files -- they are for
images that are designed to be placed within other kinds of files,
e.g. included within another PostScript file as a graphical element
somewhere on a page.

As such, they have no real concept of a paper size, because they
are just some subset of a page.

A conforming EPS file should have a BoundingBox (or HiResBoundingBox)
comment, however, to allow applications to determine how large the
image in the EPS file is, and thus place and/or scale it appropriately
on the page.

--jhawk