General ⇒ Exporting clipped Figures

[cbustaam]

Hey all,

I'm preparing an article which contains figures. As the figures have some blank spaces in all the four margins, I used the clipping option to get ride of such white space when compiling.

I'm wondering if there is a way to export the figure files just as LaTeX read it, i.e after clipping and in the scale used. Thoughts?

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[!htb]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[bb=125bp 250bp 490bp 540bp,clip,scale=0.5]{myfigfile.pdf}
    \caption{My Figure}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

[localghost]

[…] As the figures have some blank spaces in all the four margins, I used the clipping option to get ride of such white space when compiling. […]

For PDF files it would be much smarter to use the pdfcrop Perl script and cut them to size before they are included into a document. This needs of course a Perl interpreter like Strawberry Perl (for Wind0ws) installed.


Remarks:

• Suffixes (like .pdf here) for included graphics files can be dropped. The graphicx package will find the file even without file type specification as long as it is present in one of the accepted formats (JPG, PDF, PNG for PDFLaTeX).

Thorsten

[cbustaam]

Thanks localghost. The pdfcrop script is just what I need. It worked perfect!