[tex-eplain] Asterisk Appears Using Epstopdf

[Daniel Luecking]

"David A. Edwards" <edwards at math.udel.edu> wrote

> I just upgraded to TEXlive 2009 on a Mac.  Now when I call the  
> epstopdf package using
> 
> \beginpackages
> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
> \usepackage{epstopdf}
> \endpackages
> 
> I get an asterisk at the top of the first page.  Any ideas on how 
> to  
> eliminate it?

epstopdf.sty now uses "\ProcessOptions*" while miniltx
only defines \let\ProcessOptions\relax. One needs to redefine
\ProcessOptions to gobble the asterisk. The following works,
but is not the best work-around:

\beginpackages
  \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
  \let\ProcessOptions\gobble
  \usepackage{epstopdf}
\endpackages

It would be better, as a general principle, to save and 
restore the definition rather than simply redefining.
The best would be to rewrite miniltx to handle the star form
of \ProcessOptions.


Dan
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Dan Luecking
Dept. of Math
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701