Re: Bounding box problem (not caused by LyX but ghostscript)

[Nicolás]

I you select the "Clip to bounding box" option and get the bounding box from the file, the result will be the same as if you simply do 
not select the "Clip to bounding box" option (in my experience, at least).
Now, regarding your eps files, are the last two or three eps files really useless? I can see that the only difference with the ok file 
is that their bounding box is one point bigger in both th evertical and horizontal dimensions. Is that really a problem? What you get 
is a white frame of less than 1mm of thickness, and since I assume your paper is white... no one will notice such fame! Just my opinion.

Cheers,
Nicolás
Tom Schlangen wrote:
Okay, I have prepared some files to illustrate the problem, so other have a 
chance to verify.

.EPS output file of the circuit drawing program I use:

http://www.ines.mynetcologne.de/dummy.eps (64k)

bbget script from http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/elec_fig/ :

http://www.ines.mynetcologne.de/bbget 

Output from bbget, using esp-gs v7.70.x:

http://www.ines.mynetcologne.de/dummy_bbget_espgs770.eps (64k) (works!)

Output from bbget, using gs v8.62:

http://www.ines.mynetcologne.de/dummy_bbget_gs862.eps (64k) (doesn´t work)

Output from gsview v4.7, using option PS to EPS, also checkmarked "Automatically 
calculate Baounding Box". BTW, using gsview v4.9 gives the same result.

http://www.ines.mynetcologne.de/dummy_gsview47.eps (64k) (doesn´t work)

Output from ps2eps v1.64 utility, parameters as suggested by 
http://www.tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps.html:

http://www.ines.mynetcologne.de/dummy_ps2eps164.eps (64k) (doesn´t work)

Just import those example eps files 

   dummy_bbget_espgs770.eps (64k) (works!)
   dummy_bbget_gs862.eps (64k) (doesn´t work)
   dummy_gsview47.eps (64k) (doesn´t work)
   dummy_ps2eps164.eps (64k) (doesn´t work)
   
to LyX always using the "Clip to bounding box" and "Read from file" options in the dialog, and have a look at the output. You will see the only file giving correct clipping is the one with the bounding box values generated by bbget and an old, discontinued ESP ghostscript version.

Now, everybody can say "that is not a problem of LyX", but on the other hand, 
the LyX image import dialogue is left pretty useless if there is only some certain 
script/program combination being able to generate bounding boxes that LyX is able to deal 
with?

Regards,

Tom Schlangen