gswin32c.exe crashes with EPS figures

What is the difference between these two figures? One is green and the other is stripy. After inserting it to a Latex document and running DVI-->PS, you will know another distinction. The striped figure makes gswin32c.exe crash while the first doesn't.

Yesterday, I met this problem. Soon after the problem occurred, I was aware of that my figures caused the problem. Then I tried to use different ways to get the EPS figures. However, they all didn't work. I had no idea what happened. Finally, I tried to fill the image using a pure colour. Luckily enough, it worked.

Latex eps figures

Sometimes, when compiling a LaTex file, we may meet the following error:
LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in 'figure'.eps (no BoundingBox). This is caused by EPS images without indicating proper boundings. Moreover, using the LaTex compiling button, you can only use .eps format figures (employ GSview to export it again), with PdfLaTex you cannot use .eps but .png, .jpg or .pdf.

How to generate proper EPS files:

1. MATLAB Plots: export figures to EPS level 2 color in MATLAB
2. Bitmap images: first, use the command imshow to show the images and then export figures to EPS level 2 color in MATLAB.
3. Print images into EPS format (you don't need to buy Acrobat, free software, such as PDF creator can do it well). Or print the documents into PDF format first, then crop the images in Acrobat and save as EPS format (sometimes the stupid Acorbat will tell you it encounters a color space error, cannot save the images as EPS format. Changing the output of EPS to PostScript language level 2 will help to solve this problem ).
4. Use any image processing softwares, convert the images into EPS images, then use GSview to export them to EPS again (the latter procedure is to overcome the LaTex error).

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