On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:33:22PM -0800, Anna H.Pryor wrote:
> I am using 1.1.5fix2 on linux.
>
> Someone sent me some .eps files that I would like to include in a paper that I
> am writing. I have already included some .eps files generated from matlab with
> no problem.
>
> When I try to include these .eps files in a float figure, I am able to preview
> the figure in the ghostview screen. However, when I try to bring up a
> postscript version of the paper I get the message:
>
> dvips: ! premature end of file in binary section.
>
> The postscript version will not come up at all...not even anything else that I
> have written.
>
> I hope that one of you knows what is going on?
The eps file may be corrupt (perhaps it doesn't have a bounding box?).
Was the eps file generated on Windows ? (the default postscript driver in
Windows is not good).