Sizing a PostScript figure for use in LaTeX

Before you insert your PostScript artwork into a LaTeX document, you should find out its natural size.

1. You can use a text editor to look at the PostScript file to find the figure's size. Look for a line that looks similar to this:

                   %%BoundingBox: 0 0 360 72

   The numbers are given in ``big points'' (1/72" units), so the example would be 360/72 = 5 inches wide by 72/72 = 1 inch high.
2. If your PostScript file comes from Interleaf, there may be two %%BoundingBox lines, one at the beginning of the file and another at the end. In this case, the one at the beginning looks like this:

                   %%BoundingBox: (atend)

   and the one near the end of the file has the actual size in it. If this is how your file looks, you must specify the size of the figure explicitly; this will be explained in the next section.

Last updated: 1995/12/19 00:39:07 UT
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