Wrong location image in EPS file

Question

I produce an EPS figure with Gnuplot, with the command:

set term post solid rounded enhanced  color 'Helvetica, 16'
replot

I need to plot this figure on a poster which I am writing with LaTeX. I am writing the poster with the multicolumn environment, which doesn't recognise the command \begin{figure} (probably this is not essential to answer my question).

I am able to upload the figure, but I have the following problem: the image appears only in a corner of the figure, the remaining part of the figure is empty. I think it is a problem with the EPS file, as I find the same problem when I try to print directly the EPS file from the printer: when I open the file, the image correctly covers the whole "paper", but when I print it the image is located in a small corner of the A4 paper.

Can anyone help me? It's one day I am trying to solve this problem!!

Answer 1

It sounds like the EPS file has an incorrect bounding box (so it is including white space) you can supply an alternative bounding box \includegraphics[bb= 100 200 300 400]{..} and top right in postscript points (bp) or you can use any other TeX unit.

A useful tip is to go \fbox{\includegraphics.....} then with the \fbox you can see the space TeX is leaving for the figure and measure the distance to the bottom left corner of the actual figure

The \fbox is just for debugging but by specifying BoundingBox coordinates (and possibly also clip) in the \includegraphics you can get latex to just include an arbitrary rectangle out of the full figure. So if the rectangle you want is at the top left you just need to specify those coordinates.

Note you should not have to do this: the program generating the boundingbox comment in the EPS file is supposed to put the correct coordinates in, but that doesn't always happen. (gnuplot eps terminal normally gets it right though I thought)