Convert eps to pdf with the correct page size or boundaries

Linux
Author

Vinh Nguyen

Published

February 12, 2011

ps2pdf by itself always converted the ps file to pdf onto a different sized paper. I finally discovered how to get the right paper size via this post. Here is my eps2pdf.sh script:

#! /bin/bash

## look in comments
## http://opendevice.blogspot.com/2007/05/eps-to-pdf-how-to-avoid-clipping.html
for file in "$@"
do
ps2pdf -dEPSCrop "$file"
done