[OS X TeX] epstopdf

[Kino]

On 28 Sep 2005, at 3:37, Chris Goedde wrote:

> A couple weeks ago, Luis Sequeira wrote:
>
>
>> Like a previous poster has said, it is better to handle (b) at  
>> shell level.
>> To convert all eps files below a given directory, you may do the  
>> following:
>> 1) Open Terminal and cd to the appropriate directory
>> 2) type the following command:
>>         find . -name '*.eps' -exec epstopdf {} \;
>>
>
> This  fails for me if the path contains spaces, which all my  
> (relevant) paths do. From the command line, I've tried every  
> combination I can think of: escaping the spaces with \, and using  
> single and double quotes around the path. But epstopdf always  
> chokes. (It might be gs that is actually choking.) Is it really  
> impossible to use epstopdf to batch convert eps to pdf when the  
> path names contain spaces? I think I can work around this (by using  
> cd), but I'm curious if I really have to.
>


1. Open your copy of epstopdf with a text editor -- I have it in /usr/ 
local/bin but perhaps your copy is elsewhere;

2. Replace the line 208

           "-sOutputFile=$OutputFilename - -c quit";

with

           "-sOutputFile=\"$OutputFilename\" - -c quit";

3. Save the file with a new name, for example, e2p in a directory  
which is in $PATH;

4. Make e2p executable.


Then you can convert all eps files in the current directory by the  
following Terminal command:

for i in *.eps; do e2p "$i"; done

whether they contain space(s) in file name or not.


Usually I don't use a image file. So I don't know if a pdf file  
containing space in file name is usable in LaTeX.



On 28 Sep 2005, at 16:10, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Calling idiosyncratic the use of spaces in file names, and more  
> generally of non-alphanumeric characters, strikes me as slightly  
> provocative.

It should be possible to modify TeX/LaTeX so that it understands file  
names in UTF-8. Actually pTeX/pLaTeX -- Japanese localised TeX/LaTeX  
-- distributed by one of the three Japanese OS X TeX distributors  
does accept files names in UTF-8. I don't know how he achieved it  
though I did a beta testing, though ;-)
<http://minakanusi.ns.musashi-tech.ac.jp/~inoue/Pages/TeX/ 
input.filename.html> (in Japanese)


Kino


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