Big white space areas above and below graphs

[danielmgit]

There is quite a big amount of white space above and below of plotted graphs. Especially when embedding in other documents this is inconvenient. Following some additions to the default makefile to automatically crop graph files:

GNUPLOT_FILES = $(wildcard *.gpi)
PNG_OBJ = $(patsubst %.gpi,%.png,  $(GNUPLOT_FILES))
PDF_OBJ = $(patsubst %.gpi,%.pdf,  $(GNUPLOT_FILES))

->TEMPFILE := $(shell mktemp)

%.pdf: %.eps
@echo "conversion in pdf format"

->@ps2epsi $< TEMPFILE
->@epstopdf --outfile=$*.pdf TEMPFILE
->@rm TEMPFILE
@echo "end"

Daniel

[danielmgit]

Alternatively, pdfcrop from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+package/texlive-extra-utils can be used on the pdf file itself.