Yes, but I think LaTeX requires the bounding box information.
Here is how I use PS (not eps) directly in LaTeX. The first arg to
difig specifies the figure size.
\usepackage[dvips]{graphics}
\newcommand{\dofig}[2]
{\center{\scalebox{#1}{\includegraphics*{#2}}}}
\begin{figure}[t]
\dofig{0.5}{somefile.ps}
\caption{\footnotesize Insert your figure caption here}
\label{fig:figref}
\end{figure}
> I can think of the quick and dirty way of calling the ps2eps
> script to do the conversion but it requires perl and
> ghostscript. Since the postscript backend is already there in
> matplotlib, it'd be nice to have the eps option directly.
Agreed.
JDH