Converting eps to png - dimensions [closed]

Question

When I convert EPS to PNG using this command

gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sDEVICE=pnggray -sOutputFile=%1.png "%1.eps"

I get PNG picture with large dimensions, although the bounding box in EPS is correct.

For example from EPS with header

%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 204 603 407 759
%%HiResBoundingBox: 204.242619 603.788607 406.691988 758.249977
%.................................
%%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 864 (epswrite)
%%CreationDate: 2011/12/10 21:30:18
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%EndComments

I've obtained a 4958x7018 png. This would correspond to the whole A4 page and not to the bounding box.

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Here's the link to png file: http://i.stack.imgur.com/i5joS.png (I did not want to put the huge monstrosity into the post) and the screenshot from gsview showing the bounding box: http://i.stack.imgur.com/BrJx3.png ; I also uploaded the EPS file to rapidshare - I am not sure what is the preferred way for sharing files here. (The file is here just for the case that the problem description is not clear enough.)

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I usually draw my pictures in metapost, from which I easily get EPS and PDF - which are ideal for inclusion into my TeX documents. The reason I needed conversion to some different format was that I wanted to post the picture at math.SE. It is possible to upload pdf on imgur, but the result is very ugly.

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My questions:

• Is there a way to get PNG with dimensions corresponding to bounding box?

• Any other suggestions for converting EPS to PNG using ghostscript? (Are there some more parameters I should have used?)

Answer 1

You need to also use the -dEPScrop option. From the GhostScript "How to use" page:

EPS parameters

-dEPSCrop Crop an EPS file to the bounding box. This is useful when converting an EPS file to a bitmap.

-dEPSFitPage Resize an EPS file to fit the page. This is useful for enlarging an EPS file to fit the paper size when printing.

-dNOEPS Prevent special processing of EPS files. This is useful when EPS files have incorrect Document Structuring Convention comments.

Answer 2

try adding -dEPSCrop to gs

OR

Why don't you try convert from Imagemagick? You're likely to find that standard on most Linux platforms. I believe there are geometry options to the conversions.