[tex-live] error-message: overfull box

Sat Nov 12 10:29:44 CET 2011

hello,

i found the solution for not being able to include an eps-file into my
latex document:

i had produced a graphic in R and had saved it as an eps-file. The problem
was that the program R was open, once i closed it, everything worked!

maybe this will help someone who comes accross the same problem in the
future.

marion

2011/11/9 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>

> 2011/11/9 Marion Wenty <marion.wenty at gmail.com>:
> > dear zdenek,
> > thank you very much for your reply!
> > did you mean i could solve the problem by writing
> > e.g.
> > %!PS
> > \begin{figure}[H]
> >
> > ...
> >
> > \end{figure}
> > %%EOF
> >
> > ?
> > this didn't work and i don't understand how something is making a change
> > even though i put a % in front of it.
> > thank you very much in advance.
> > marion
> >
> No! The reason is that quite a lot of programs are not EPS aware. They
> pretend to generate EPS but the result is not EPS. At the beginning
> some garbage (printer control commands etc) may be included. Other
> programs prepare EPS for inclusion of GUI based programs (InDesign
> etc) that cannot display EPS directly in the editing window. For this
> purpose a small-resolution bitmap preview is added to the EPS file.
> The former is a format error, the latter confuses TeX tools. The
> format of the EPS files is fully described in the PostScript reference
> manual that can be downloaded from the Adobe web site (or bought as a
> printed book). The file should contain Document Structure Comments
> (DSC). Looking at the comment you can easily see whether the EPS file
> contains some garbage. If the file is valid, then the first line
> starts with
>
> %!PS
>
> and the last line is
>
> %%EOF
>
> If the file contains something preceding %!PS and/or following %%EOF,
> you can safely remove it. You have to open the file in a proper text
> editor. The EPS file is usually just a normal text file but in some
> cases may contain binary data.
>
> I have found my own simple perl script for removing garbage from EPS
> files, the name is epsungarbage.pl and is called this way:
>
> epsungarbage.pl < input.eps > output.eps
>
> This is the script:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # Remove binary garbage from the beginning and end of the EPS file
>
> $garbage = 1;
>
> while (<>) {
>  if ($garbage > 0) {
>    if (/%!PS/) {
>      $_ = $&.$';
>      $garbage = 0;
>    }
>  } elsif (/^%%EOF/) {
>    $_ = "%%EOF\n";
>    $garbage = -1;
>  }
>  print if $garbage < 1;
>  last if $garbage < 0;
> }
>
> > 2011/11/9 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> 2011/11/9 Marion Wenty <marion.wenty at gmail.com>:
> >> > hello,
> >> > i am trying to include a grapic, ist is an eps.file:
> >> > does anyone know how to deal with this error message?
> >> > [2] <gra.eps> [3]
> >> >
> >> > Overfull \vbox (247.34067pt too high) has occurred while \output is
> >> > active
> >> >
> >> > [4] <gra.eps>
> >> >
> >> > Overfull \hbox (464.0225pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 105--106
> >> >
> >> Your image is larger than the page size (\texwidth abd \textheight).
> >> You have to make it smaller, e.g. by scaling (see grfguide.pdf)
> >>
> >> > [][]
> >> >
> >> > LaTeX Warning: Float too large for page by 1.59608pt on input line
> 108.
> >> >
> >> > [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11Error: /syntaxerror in -file-
> >> >
> >> > Operand stack:
> >> >
> >> > 334.09 98.35
> >> >
> >> > Execution stack:
> >> >
> >> This is a problem in your EPS files. It is difficult to guess the
> >> exact problem without seeing the EPS file but usually MS programs
> >> prepend a binary garbage to the beginning of your file. If you open
> >> the EPS file in GS, everything works because the garbage is
> >> automatically removed. However, if you include such file using dvips
> >> or dvipdfm, it usually causes this type of errors. It is necessary to
> >> remove such garbage, ie the first valid line must start with %!PS and
> >> the last line must be %%EOF. Sometimes DSC comments may confuse
> >> dvips/dvipdfm, sometimes ASCII85 encoded string may lead to confusion
> >> and then cause such errors. A few years ago I wrote a perl script that
> >> created a dummy EPS file containing just the bounding box information
> >> and (filename.eps) run. Thus just a small file was examined by LaTeX
> >> and included in the PS output and it displayed the correct output in
> >> GS. Another perl script looked for (filename.eps) run commands and
> >> included the real EPS files (if I wanted to send the file to PS
> >> printer, to Adobe Distiller, or send it to someone else).
> >>
> >> > %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> --nostringval-- 2
> >> > %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1
> >> > %stopped_push 1878 1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3
> >> > %oparray_pop 1755 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop
> >> > .runexec2
> >> > --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push
> >> >
> >> > Dictionary stack:
> >> >
> >> > --dict:1162/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:95/200(L)--
> >> >
> >> > Current allocation mode is local
> >> >
> >> > Current file position is 13023
> >> >
> >> > GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> >> >
> >> > ** WARNING ** Filtering file via command -->rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> >> > -sPAPERSIZE=a0 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5
> >> > -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false -dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode
> >> > -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode
> >> >
> >> >
> -sOutputFile='C:/DOKUME~1/MARION~1.WEN/LOKALE~1/Temp/dvipdfmx.a0321600002'
> >> > './gra.eps' -c quit<-- failed.
> >> >
> >> > ** WARNING ** Image format conversion for "./gra.eps" failed...
> >> >
> >> > ** ERROR ** pdf_ref_obj(): passed invalid object.
> >> >
> >> > Output file removed.
> >> >
> >> > fwrite: Broken pipe
> >> >
> >> > xelatex.exe:
> >> >
> >> > thank you very much in advance.
> >> >
> >> > marion
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Zdeněk Wagner
> >> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> >> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
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