: Illustrator: make EPS bounding box match artboard I need to produce an EPS file with a specific bounding box using Illustrator. If I export to PDF, the PDF page size will correspond to the

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I need to produce an EPS file with a specific bounding box using Illustrator. If I export to PDF, the PDF page size will correspond to the artboard. However, if I export to EPS, the bounding box seems to be much larger (or missing entirely, as it displays in A4 size with Ghostscript). How can I get Illustrator to use the artboard size as bounding box for EPS files?



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Here's an example drawing with artboard and export settings:



The resulting EPS does not include bounding box information in the header. Here's the beginning:



I would expect a header like this instead (got this by exporting to PDF, which was converted to EPS by Ghostscript).



When opening it with Ghostscript based viewers, I can't get the page size to be the artboard size. They just default to something (e.g. A4 paper).



When opening with Preview, it is cropped to the contents instead of preserving the artboard size:



It is important to preserve bounding box information when embedding the EPS in other documents using various software (e.g. LaTeX).

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