General ⇒ overlapping figures

[lmas]

Hello Latex users,

I am experiencing a problem with eps figures. I generate the eps figures using Matlab. Usually they come with a huge bounding box and I edit the eps file with Wordpad to crop it manually. The problem is that if I don't set a sufficient margin, when I Latex the document the figures (in a subfigure environment) appear overlapped, more precisely, the right figure overlaps the left one. I found a solution to this by opening the eps files with Acrobat Professional, croping there and saving again as eps. Two problems arise: the size of the file increases a lot and I am not able to insert latex text in the figures using psfrag anymore.
I send an example attached.

Does someone knows what I have to do?

Thank you

[balfonsi]

I suppose you use a \subfigure{\includegraphics{myfigure}} command. Why don't you specify the width (in points} since you can read it in the .eps files?
Another suggestion: insert an horizontal space between the subfiguresthat appear on the same line,say
\subfigure{\includegraphics{myfigure1}}
\qquad
\subfigure{\includegraphics{myfigure2}}

B.A.

[lmas]

How can I set the width of the figure? With \includegraphics[width=....] ?


If I insert an horizontal space the figures may not appear side by side or to have them side by side I would have to decrease the size. I don't want to have blank spaces between the figures.

[balfonsi]

Well, as you said, you crop the size of the bounding box manually. Then you can test if the new size is correct using ghostscript: if you're under windows at least,using gsview, you set as an option to show Bounding Box. As the precision can be 1/100 pt, it is more than sufficient.

Of course all this has to be done by hand. Btw, did you think of using the miniplot package? It seems to do what you want. There also exists a makeplo package, dedicated to making plots directly out of matlab data files (it's to be found in \pstricks\contributions)

Regards,
B.A.