Automatic cropping ov .eps graphics

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Hi everybody

I am producing a lot of .eps figures for my master thesis using gnuplot. 
Most of them are great using the default size setting (landscape), but 
some would be better off being in a square format. If I "set size 
square", the figure itself is OK, but the right margin enlarges the 
plotting area so far as if it were a landscape figure. So, I see now 
two possibilities:

1.) Somehow crop the unneeded whitespace from the right margin, so that 
I can just \includegraphics{myplot}
2.) Specify which part of the image to use for latex, such as
\includegraphics[80%of the image width][100%of the image height]{myplot}

What is important maybe: I use the koma-script class, and use the 
\captionbeside{} environment, which sets a caption besides the figure. 
So the whitespace is annoying, because there is an unnecessarily large 
"margin" for the figure then.

So what do I do now? I have already tried out eps2eps. This crops the 
whitespace from the right margin, but adds a new margin to the left 
side and the bottom. And the text is converted to bitmap, which looks 
ugly.

Thanks,
joerg

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