Importing EPS into Stencils

[Elliott Roper]

On 05- Jan-2005, at 16:53, Dieder Bylsma wrote:

> I'm using version 3.1.2 of Omnigraffle and having a difficult time 
> creating a new stencil.
>
> Specifically I already have a new line drawing created and saved in 
> EPS. When I copy and paste it to Omnigraffle, it creates a 
> document-size 'bounding' box around the newly 'imported' EPS graphic. 
> This compared quite poorly compared to the size of the bounding boxes 
> in the other stencils that come both with Graffle and which are 
> available off the Graffle web site.
>
> The graphic seems to be fine, just the bounding box is unreasonably 
> large. Is there an alternate method of importing an EPS graphic into 
> Graffle other than copy & paste which will result in a bounding-box 
> sized no-larger than the illustration itself if not the outer 
> boundaries of the illustration?
>
> thx for any info,
I think it depends on how you created the eps. Ones I made here with 
Freehand, and saved as 'selection only' behaved excellently. Go back to 
FH or Illy and see if you cannot export again.