LaTeX Tips

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Work in GSView

The last step before Latex is to compute the bounding box of the EPS  file, which defines the coordinates of the smallest rectangle bounding the figure. Note that the printed EPS file usually does not have these information, for example, the figures generated from Excel/Word/PowerPoint (but in Matlab, all exported figures are generated with bounding box information). In that case, you need to input those coordinates as parameters in Latex.

To save this trouble, GSView provides a function for computing the bounding box information and saving it in the EPS file. So make sure you have installed the latest versions of GSView and Ghostscript. The option for automatic computing bounding box can be found in the file menu, "PS to EPS". 

Now the figure is ready for the use in Latex. Refer to "Embedding Figures in Latex" for further information.

 

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Update 02-17-2006