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Manipulating the embedded file

Here are some samples of what you can do in the place where normally you just effect a number of translations.

Just the necessary translations

To give you an idea of the correct sequence. The numbers llx0, llx etc. are part of the bounding box coordinates of the figure file and the label file concerned..
llx0 lly0 translate
-llx -lly translate

Changing scale

llx0 lly0 translate
2 2 scale
-llx -lly translate

... and rotating

llx0 lly0 translate
20 rotate
1 1 scale
-llx -lly translate

Blanking out the figure's background

llx0 lly0 translate
-llx -lly translate

gsave
newpath
llx lly moveto
llx ury lineto
urx ury lineto
urx lly lineto
closepath
1 1 1 setrgbcolor
fill
grestore

Outlining it

llx0 lly0 translate
-llx -lly translate

gsave
newpath
llx lly moveto
llx ury lineto
urx ury lineto
urx lly lineto
closepath
stroke
grestore