Thread Subject: interpreter='latex' ruins bounding box in eps export

Maybe I'm being too anal, but I love the 'latex' option for text annotations: not only more options but also better looking figures. But any text object in the figure with 'interpreter' set to 'latex' and the exported eps file has no automaticaly set bounding box, which makes it very hard to import into a latex document. Can anyone think of a workaround?
Thanks,
-naor (R2006a, win32xp)

"Naor Movshovitz" wrote:
> Maybe I'm being too anal, but I love the 'latex' option for text annotations: not only more options but also better looking figures. But any text object in the figure with 'interpreter' set to 'latex' and the exported eps file has no automaticaly set bounding box, which makes it very hard to import into a latex document. Can anyone think of a workaround?
> Thanks,
> -naor (R2006a, win32xp)

Dear Naor

Did you find a solution to this (other than printing to pdf rather than eps)? Did the problem disappear with a later version of MATLAB?

Thanks,
Oliver

On 12 apr, 18:32, "Oliver Woodford" <o.j.woodford...@cantab.net>
wrote:
> "Naor Movshovitz" wrote:
> > Maybe I'm being too anal, but I love the 'latex' option for text annotations: not only more options but also better looking figures. But any text object in the figure with 'interpreter' set to 'latex' and the exported eps file has no automaticaly set bounding box, which makes it very hard to import into a latex document. Can anyone think of a workaround?
> > Thanks,
> > -naor (R2006a, win32xp)
>
> Dear Naor
>
> Did you find a solution to this (other than printing to pdf rather than eps)? Did the problem disappear with a later version of MATLAB?

This is a known bug in the utility EPS2PDF in the LaTeX bundle.
Somebody tested a recent version of EPS2PDF not too long ago,
to find that the bug is fixed.

However, if you do want LaTeX fonts in figures exported to
LaTeX, print directly to PDF from matlab, and use pdfLaTeX
to generate the document. You will probably have to manually
set the figure sizes, something like

set(gcf,'paperunits','centimemters')
set(gcf,'papersize',[12,8])
set(gcf,'paperposition',[0,0,10,8])

Rune

Rune Allnor wrote:
> This is a known bug in the utility EPS2PDF in the LaTeX bundle.

I'm seeing a similar problem and I'm not using eps2pdf.

Rune Allnor wrote:
> Somebody tested a recent version of EPS2PDF not too long ago,
> to find that the bug is fixed.

In my case the problem is caused by MATLAB's print putting embedded font information above the standard eps header (as pointed out by Rune and others), and Ghostcript not finding the bounding box information as a result (even the latest version of gs, 8.71).

This behaviour of print (I have no idea whether it is standards compliant or not) was in R2006b, but was changed in R2007b (and possibly R2007a, but I can't check this), fixing the problem.

"Oliver Woodford" wrote:
> This behaviour of print (I have no idea whether it is standards compliant or not) was in R2006b, but was changed in R2007b (and possibly R2007a, but I can't check this), fixing the problem.

For earlier versions of MATLAB I've incorporated a fix into my fix_lines function (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23604-fixlines) which will move embedded fonts below the header.

Oliver