Problem with eps transparency, Illustrator CS4

Question

Hi!
I truly hope you can help me with this because I really can't find the answer myself.
I need to save eps-versions of the files I make in the Illustrator.
I have made a script (using Javascript) to get the right settings for eps automatically and it has worked fine, but now that I upgraded to CS4 there's suddenly a problem. Script used to work so that any excess transparency around the image was cropped off. Now it remains there and causes problems later in the processes where these eps-files are used.
If I look at the eps-files in the Photoshop I can see that the size of the artboard remains there as transparency.
Here are the settings for saving eps in the script:
function getEPSOptions()
var epsSaveOpts = new EPSSaveOptions();
epsSaveOpts.cmykPostscript = true;
epsSaveOpts.embedAllFonts = true;
epsSaveOpts.includeDocumentThumbnails = false;
epsSaveOpts.preview = EPSPreview.None;
  return epsSaveOpts;
I noticed that I can crop the transparency off with this line:
saveDoc.cropBox = saveDoc.visibleBounds
But the problem here is that if the size of the illustration is larger than artboard this will actually make the size of the eps-file bigger.
I need a solution where the tranparency is cropped off, but the artboard area is never made larger by the script...
Any ideas? Anyone?

Answer 1

Heh ... I happened to write a function for exactly this just the other day. Not sure how this goes exactly with visible vs geometric bounds. Depending on exactly what you need, it might be problematic.
myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var docBounds = (function() {
myDoc.LeftPoint = myDoc.pageItems[0].left;
myDoc.RightPoint = myDoc.pageItems[0].left + myDoc.pageItems[0].width;
myDoc.TopPoint = myDoc.pageItems[0].top;
myDoc.BottomPoint = myDoc.pageItems[0].top - myDoc.pageItems[0].height;
for (i=0;i<myDoc.pageItems.length-1;i++) {
myDoc.LeftPoint = (myDoc.pageItems[i].left < myDoc.LeftPoint) ? myDoc.pageItems[i].left : myDoc.LeftPoint;
myDoc.RightPoint = (myDoc.pageItems[i].left + myDoc.pageItems[i].width > myDoc.RightPoint) ? myDoc.pageItems[i].left + myDoc.pageItems[i].width : myDoc.RightPoint;
myDoc.TopPoint = (myDoc.pageItems[i].top > myDoc.TopPoint) ? myDoc.pageItems[i].top : myDoc.TopPoint;
myDoc.BottomPoint = (myDoc.pageItems[i].top - myDoc.pageItems[i].height < myDoc.BottomPoint) ? myDoc.pageItems[i].top - myDoc.pageItems[i].height : myDoc.BottomPoint;
return [myDoc.LeftPoint,myDoc.TopPoint,myDoc.RightPoint,myDoc.BottomPoint]
myDoc.artboards[0].artboardRect = docBounds;