Re: Graphicx TeXnicians: Best way to find finished size of included graphic?

Tim Arnold wrote:
<daveandes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1138653227.443585.294660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm hoping someone might help me find a (relatively) easy solution to a
big graphicx problem!


I'm wondering if there's a decent way to figure out what size the
graphic is _before_ calling \includegraphics. I envision a macro, maybe
called \getgraphicsize, that would read the file and get its size.
Optionally, it would provide the finished size after transformations
when called with optional parameters; i.e.
\getgraphicsize[scale=0.8]{mygraphic}. Then I could use the dimensions
to somehow select which environment I want to call.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have...

David 


hi,

This is what I would do:
\newsavebox{\graphbox}
\savebox{\graphbox}{\includegraphics[scale=.75]{filename}}
and then use \ifthenelse with \wd\graphbox to decide on which
of your environments to use.

btw, you can then \usebox since you've already loaded your graphic. 


In addition to Tim's excellent suggestion, you might try something
like
$ grep BoundingBox *.eps

This would allow you to get some sense of the sizes presented.

(Apologies if you've thought of this already.)

--
Jonathan

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