fix_lines

Thank a lot!

Although, I do think it would be good to put in a warning if tiff preview is activated in the file being processed. It seems that a flaw which removes plot lines would be something of which the user should be made aware (along with the quick solution)!

Jered: See my update comment from 18 August 2010. Don't save with tiff preview.

Great script, does exactly what it's supposed to do. No more annoying thin slashes where there was supposed to be dots! Thanks

Excellent! This makes figures look like they do on screen. For those of us who like GUIs, note that this also works if you save figures by clicking File>Save As... and select EPS (which opens in PDF viewers and word processors).

I tried using the script to improve my matlab-generated eps files (created using print('-depsc2','-tiff','-r600','filename.eps'])), but the output file cannot be read by ghostview.
I get the following message "DOS EPS header is bad". Ignoring DSC comments" in GV.
The Adobe Distiller-generated PDF for the eps file is a blank page.
Any idea?

Hi, I like this code - it has come in handy!

I was thinking that since the code has some error checking at the top, it should probably also take account of the situation where the file can't be opened. If that's the case at the moment (say the file isn't there) the line:

fh = fopen(fname, 'rt');

returns -1 into fh. That could be checked and acted on below that, for example like this:

[fh, fMsg] = fopen(fname, 'rt');
if ( fh == -1 )
disp(['Error opening file: ' fMsg]);
return;
end

Otherwise, an error is thrown when the fread line is executed, and it goes to close the file on the fclose line just below it. Since it's not open, this throws another error and the code exits with an error before the rethrow line is executed.

i fixed the dashed line in my eps figure after running this function...