[SciPy-user] Broken pipe for xplt.eps (Other issue)

[Pearu Peterson]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Fernando Perez wrote:

<snip python function correcting eps file bbox>

> So maybe using ps2eps may help.

The problem with *ps2*ps* utilities is that they may considerably
increase (by factors 5 or even more) the sizes of postscript files on
certain plots (e.g. on Matlab generated meshes if face lines are not
disabled).

Eps-files bounding boxes can be fixed using gs bbox device feature.
For example,

  gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -sOutputFile=- file.ps

will calculate and output correct BoundingBox and HiResBoundingBox
to standard output.
And then you can either use sed or may be python tools to replace

%%BoundingBox: ...

line in file.ps with the correct BoundingBox values.

Pearu