Comments on: Preparing Final Submissions for IEEE Journal Articles

By: Peter Yu

Peter Yu — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:11:07 +0000

@Shawn Lankton If you use the subfig package, you can actually change the caption style to be numbers, roman numerals, letters or capital letters. I wrote a little tutorial on it: http://www.peteryu.ca/tutorials/publishing/latex_captions

Thanks for writing this tutorial, it’s been very helpful to me. Do you know of an easy way to retain references and citations in the subfigure captions and tables in figs_only.tex? This is an issue if I refer to Eq. (8) or reference [10] in my subfigure captions, inside tables, etc. As figs_only.tex doesn’t have the references from the original file, all the references break. Copying the references over runs the risk of losing their numerical order.

By: Shawn Lankton

Shawn Lankton — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:18:05 +0000

@Gianni thanks for the tip. Glad you found the post useful.

By: Gianni

Gianni — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:21:46 +0000

Hi,

thanks for the useful instructions. Everything worked fine, but when I generated the final PDF there was a white rectangle covering part of the text near each figure. The EPS figures looked fine in GSView. The bounding box values seemed to be fine too. Mistery…

After wasting some more time I was able to solve the problem by adding a trim directive with 0 values.

Example:

\includegraphics[clip=true,trim=0 0 0 0]{fig/fig_23}

By: ozi

ozi — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:47:23 +0000

Thanks for the nice tip, that saved me a lot of time. I modified your code to convert all the pages in the figs_only.pdf

#!/bin/sh
# usage:
# pdf2eps

for (( c=1; c<=$1; c++ ))
do
pdfcrop $2.pdf
pdftops -f $c -l $c -eps "$2-crop.pdf"
rm "$2-crop.pdf"
mv "$2-crop.eps" "fig_$c.eps"

done

For example, if your figs_only.pdf file has 12 pages. Just writr

$ ./pdf2eps.sh 12 figs_only

and voila! you have all the eps files you neeed.

By: ozi

ozi — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:37:44 +0000

Thanks for the nice tip, that saved me a lot of time. I modified your code to convert all the pages in the figs_only.pdf

#!/bin/sh
# usage:
# pdf2eps

for (( c=1; c<=$1; c++ ))
do
pdfcrop $2.pdf
pdftops -f $c -l $c -eps "$2-crop.pdf"
rm "$2-crop.pdf"
mv "$2-crop.eps" "fig_$c.eps"
#mv figs_only.eps fig2.eps

done

For example, if your figs_only.pdf file has 12 pages. Just writr

$ ./pdf2eps.sh 12 figs_only

and voila! you have all the eps files you neeed.

By: Shawn Lankton

Shawn Lankton — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:39:57 +0000

@jasmine Hey. I don't know how to do this, specifically, but you can check the subfigure package help (which is very well done). (http://www.fi.infn.it/pub/tex/doc/orig/subfigure.pdf)

By: jasmine

jasmine — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:14:17 +0000

Do you know of any way to change the labeling of the subfigures when using the subfigure package? (i.e. instead of (a), (b), etc write A, B,… or some other label?)

Thanks!

By: Shawn Lankton

Shawn Lankton — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:58:19 +0000

@william If your figures are vectorized, then you shouldn't need to worry about resolution at all. HOWEVER, if your figures are bitmaps, then resolution is VERY important, and you should shoot for 600dpi for a print article. The steps I give in the post should give you eps files at the same resolution that they were in the pdf file. If you're having trouble with convert, try using another program such as Photoshop to convert the filetype. Finally, if the problem is in the pdf2eps-pdfcrop part, you can try changing the line: $::opt_resolution = ""; to $::opt_resolution = "600"; in pdfcrop.pl. This seemed to have no effect for me because my images came out high-res to begin with, but it might fix your problem! Let us know if that works.

By: william

william — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:43:13 +0000

Very nice tips there. I actually tried them, and works pretty well. But is there a way to increase the resolution of the eps files?
The graphic eps files are now generated with 72 dpi, while the guideline said we need 600dpi for printing. Is it ok to use just 72 dpi?

Thanks for your suggestions and helps.