Re: [Groff] Re: How to make EPS?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> It usually *does* work, but you're turning that feature off
> with "-P-b16".  [...]

Thanks for your analysis.

> Try this:
> 
>   groff -P-p2i,2i foo >foo.ps
>   gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=foo.pdf foo.ps
> 
> Another thing to note is that setting the MediaBox in the
> PDF-file from the BoundingBox in the PS-file using -dEPSCrop
> appears to work only when the "EPSF"-signature is present in
> the first line of the PS-file.

Keith, what do you think of extending your pdfroff script to emulate
the creation of PDFs from EPS files (using -dEPSCrop)?


    Werner