GNUPlot: How to remove the blank margin space on the left

When you plot a figure using gnuplot, sometimes, there will be an extra blank margin on the left. To make the figure more condense, you can use a bash script to remove the extra blank margin. The basic idea is to adjust the Bounding Box for eps more intelligently.

Usage:
bash fixbb *.eps

The original image may look like this

The original eps file will be replaced with the adjusted eps file

The new eps file may look like this.




You can download this script from here.
Or, copy the following lines into a file named "fixbb" or something else whatever you like.

You can also copy this file (Assume you are using Linux)
to /usr/local/bin
and run "sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/fixbb"
Then in your terminal, you can directly run
"fixbb *.eps"

This script helps us a lot for our paper.

#!/bin/bash

# This is fixbb version 0.31.  Copyright 2000 by Jeff Spirko.
# Redistributable under the GNU General Public License.
# See http://topquark.dhs.org/~spirko/fixbb/

# Changes by Petr Mikulik:
#   -  8.  9. 2000: working file in the $TMP directory; remove backup file
#   - 18. 10. 2000: AWKPARSEBB to support multiple-page (non-EPS) documents
#   - 26. 10. 2000: error if bounding box not determined (GS < gsopts="-dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bbox" awkprog="'{" 1 ="=" awkprog="'" 1 ="=" found="1;" awkparsebb="'" x1="99999;" y1="99999;" x2="0;" y2="0;" page="0">$2 { x1=$2 }
y1>$3 { y1=$3 }
x2<$4 { x2=$4 }  y2<$5 { y2=$5 }  { page++; printf "Page " page ": " $0 "  max = " x1 " " y1 " " x2 " " y2  "  \t\r" >"/dev/stderr" }
END { printf "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r" >"/dev/stderr"
   print x1 " " y1 " " x2 " " y2 }
'

export bbox

# Each command-line argument is assumed to be a file to process
for FILE in $* ; do

#  BAK=${FILE}~
#  if [ "$TMP" = "" ]; then TMP="."; fi; BAK=$TMP\fixbb__.ps
BAK='fixbb$$.ps'

# Get the correct BoundingBox from ghostscript.
# Old: bbox=`gs ${GSOPTS} ${FILE} 2>&1 | gsort | head -1 | cut -d\  -f 2-`
bbox=`/usr/bin/gs ${GSOPTS} ${FILE} 2>&1 | awk "$AWKPARSEBB"`

case $bbox in
"99999 99999 0 0")
echo "Bounding box was NOT determined (empty pages or Ghostscript >= 5.50 required)"
exit ;;
esac

echo "Bounding box for \""$FILE"\" is: "$bbox

# Save the old version of the file
mv $FILE $BAK

# Create the new version, replacing the old BoundingBox
awk "$AWKPROG" $BAK > $FILE

case `uname` in
"OS/2") dos2unix $FILE ;;
esac

# delete the backup file
rm -f $BAK

done