Export PSTricks with pst-optexp to EPS

Question

I have been trying to create EPS files from drawings of several optical experimental setups made with pst-optexp. It all works quit well for pdf files so there is no issue on that front. There is however a problem when converting the drawings to EPS (I need to be able to use the drawings in programs like PowerPoint).

Below is a proportion of one drawing, I've removed parts that aren't important for this problem.

\documentclass[letterpaper,dvips]{article}
\usepackage{pst-all}
\usepackage{pst-eps}
\usepackage{pst-optexp}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{units}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{TeXtoEPS}
\begin{pspicture}(6,3.5)

\pnodes(5,2){A}(5,1){B}(4,1){C}(2,1){D}
\optbox[position=start, optboxwidth=1.2,optboxheight=1.5,labeloffset=0](A)(B){Laser}
\mirror[labelangle=45](A)(B)(C){M1}
\optplate[abspos=0.5, labelangle=0,label=.98](C)(D)

\end{pspicture}
\end{TeXtoEPS}
\end{document}

I convert the files using:

latex draw.tex
dvips draw.dvi -E -o draw.eps

The EPS file is then created but is not displayed in Powerpoint. (Empty box with "This image cannot currently be displayed." message) The problem appears to be caused by the following line - without it PowerPoint is able to display the resulting eps file:

\mirror[labelangle=45](A)(B)(C){M1}

Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this problem? I would be happy with a conversion to PNG as well. Although I'd prefer EPS, I don't care too much about the format anymore as long as it'll work with Office products.

Answer 1

Use

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pst-optexp}
\usepackage{units}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(6,3.5)        
        \pnodes(5,2){A}(5,1){B}(4,1){C}(2,1){D}
        \optbox[position=start, 
        optboxwidth=1.2,optboxheight=1.5,labeloffset=0](A)(B){Laser}
        \mirror[labelangle=45](A)(B)(C){M1}
        \optplate[abspos=0.5, labelangle=0,label=.98](C)(D)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

and then

latex draw.tex
dvips draw.dvi -E -o draw.eps
epstool --bbox --copy draw.eps draw2.eps

epstool is available for *nix and Windows:

Epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in EPS files, fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm