From: AES on
In article <hmqivo$shc$1(a)smc.vnet.net>,
Murray Eisenberg <murray(a)math.umass.edu> wrote:

> That's a common problem that is easily solved in either of two ways:
>
> (1) Process the LaTeX file with pdfTeX so as to directly convert from
> .tex source to .pdf output. This should avoid the bounding box problem.
>
> (2) Instead of doing the Mathematica Export to .pdf, Export to .eps.
> Next, run an ordinary LaTeX processor that produces .dvi output.
> Finally, convert from .dvi to .ps and then from .ps to .eps.
>
> I do (2) all the time, since I get the quickest workflow that way. But I
> use (1) sometimes, too.

Do your exported .eps files typically end up being much larger than the
corresponding .pdf files?

From: Murray Eisenberg on
I never systematically checked the size comparison of exported .eps vs.
..pdf. But I seem to recall that it is not unusual to have .eps larger.

On 3/7/2010 4:01 AM, AES wrote:
> In article<hmqivo$shc$1(a)smc.vnet.net>,
> Murray Eisenberg<murray(a)math.umass.edu> wrote:
>
>> That's a common problem that is easily solved in either of two ways:
>>
>> (1) Process the LaTeX file with pdfTeX so as to directly convert from
>> .tex source to .pdf output. This should avoid the bounding box problem.
>>
>> (2) Instead of doing the Mathematica Export to .pdf, Export to .eps.
>> Next, run an ordinary LaTeX processor that produces .dvi output.
>> Finally, convert from .dvi to .ps and then from .ps to .eps.
>>
>> I do (2) all the time, since I get the quickest workflow that way. But I
>> use (1) sometimes, too.
>
> Do your exported .eps files typically end up being much larger than the
> corresponding .pdf files?
>

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