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Interesting. My experience is that pdflatex generates crisp and compact
pdf, though I usually use xpdf to view. I hadn't had similar luck with
ps2pdf but the -?mz may help.
	-C
JH: > dvips -Pcmz -Pamz -G1 -Ppdf -o final3.ps final3.dvi
JH: > ps2pdf final3.ps
JH:This will generate high quality PDF w/o the blurry appearance in
JH:acroread that you sometimes see with PDF generated by LaTeX.

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles <ct...@cs...> writes:
 Charles> John, I'd second the request for direct EPS. Sometimes
 Charles> you can get away without the bounding box, but not
 Charles> always. I've been using ps2epsi to convert my matplot .ps
 Charles> files into .eps files (.epsi is .eps with a preview, but
 Charles> I don't need the preview). It does a good job of finding
 Charles> bounding boxes. That's very important for running
 Charles> epstopdf on the images. That gives me pdf images so I can
 Charles> run pdflatex and generate a native PDF file from my
 Charles> LaTeX.
I'll see if I can get EPS into the ps backend in the near future. As
far as I know, it should just be a matter of adding a bounding box.
Note that you don't need to first convert your images to PDF to
generate PDF from LaTeX (though a PDF backend is on the TODO list). I
routinely generate PDF documents from LaTeX src with *.ps inputs as
follows
 # With recent version of gv (7.x or later) do
 > dvips -Pcmz -Pamz -G1 -Ppdf -o final3.ps final3.dvi
 > ps2pdf final3.ps
This will generate high quality PDF w/o the blurry appearance in
acroread that you sometimes see with PDF generated by LaTeX.
Hope this helps!
John Hunter

John,
I'd second the request for direct EPS. Sometimes you can get away without
the bounding box, but not always. I've been using ps2epsi to convert my
matplot .ps files into .eps files (.epsi is .eps with a preview, but I
don't need the preview). It does a good job of finding bounding boxes.
That's very important for running epstopdf on the images. That gives me
pdf images so I can run pdflatex and generate a native PDF file from my
LaTeX.
-C
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