Fix eps distillation bbox bug; closes 3032385

efiring · efiring · commit 7c9dd2caaa9a · 2011-01-12T07:53:37.000Z
svn path=/branches/v1_0_maint/; revision=8906
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_ps.py
@@ -1363,7 +1363,8 @@ def gs_distill(tmpfile, eps=False, ptype='letter', bbox=None, rotated=False):
     operators. The output is low-level, converting text to outlines.
     """
 
-    paper_option = "-sPAPERSIZE=%s" % ptype
+    if eps: paper_option = "-dEPSCrop"
+    else: paper_option = "-sPAPERSIZE=%s" % ptype
 
     psfile = tmpfile + '.ps'
     outfile = tmpfile + '.output'
@@ -1385,14 +1386,6 @@ def gs_distill(tmpfile, eps=False, ptype='letter', bbox=None, rotated=False):
     shutil.move(psfile, tmpfile)
 
 
-    # While it is best if above steps preserve the original bounding
-    # box, it does not seems to be the case. pstoeps not only convert
-    # the input to eps format, but also restores the original bbox.
-
-    if eps:
-        pstoeps(tmpfile, bbox, rotated=rotated)
-
-
 def xpdf_distill(tmpfile, eps=False, ptype='letter', bbox=None, rotated=False):
     """
     Use ghostscript's ps2pdf and xpdf's/poppler's pdftops to distill a file.
@@ -1432,17 +1425,9 @@ def xpdf_distill(tmpfile, eps=False, ptype='letter', bbox=None, rotated=False):
     os.remove(tmpfile)
     shutil.move(psfile, tmpfile)
 
-
-    # Similar to the gs_distillier case, ps2pdf does not seem to
-    # preserve the bbox of the original file (at least w/ gs
-    # 8.61). Thus, the original bbox need to be resotred.
-
-    if eps:
-        pstoeps(tmpfile, bbox, rotated)
     for fname in glob.glob(tmpfile+'.*'):
         os.remove(fname)
 
-
 def get_bbox_header(lbrt, rotated=False):
     """
     return a postscript header stringfor the given bbox lbrt=(l, b, r, t).
