I have a simple EPS file which includes lines going to the very edges of the page. Although the printer might not be able to print to the very edge of the paper, I would like the EPS to be retained in the document unscaled. When I insert the EPS, it always has a blank area around the edge and does not preserve the original dimensions precisely. My EPS looks like this:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
userdict /MM {2.8346 mul} put
gsave
0 MM 157 MM moveto 210 MM 0 rlineto 0 MM 275 MM moveto 210 MM 0 rlineto
171 MM 150 MM moveto 0 140 MM rlineto 20 MM 150 MM moveto 0 140 MM rlineto
0.2 setlinewidth stroke
gsave
27 MM 150 MM moveto 0 140 MM rlineto 164 MM 150 MM moveto 0 140 MM rlineto
[2 2] 0 setdash stroke grestore
27 MM 157 MM translate
0 0 moveto 0 118 MM lineto 137 MM 0 rlineto 0 -118 MM rlineto closepath clip
grestore
The horizontal lines should go to the very edges of the image on an A4 page. The vertical lines should stop 7mm from the top of the A4 page. Even if I set the page margins to zero, the EPS image will be scaled back to about 98% of the correct size. Setting “Original size” make no difference.