[tex-live] [Fwd: Re: LyXWin137preSmall-0-6.exe and TeXLive2005]

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:

> > > > eps2pdf is a shell script, if it is missing write a short
> > > > note to the texlive mailing list.
> > > 
> > > Could you do this for me please. You know more details about this
> > > than I do.
> > 
> > TeX Live2005 *has* epstopdf for Windows. eps2pdf has never been used in TL.
> 
> Doesn't this epstopdf assume that there is a Perl somewhere?
 
Yes. Perl (a minimal) is installed on Windows by default, but can be 
deselected if you already have it. See TL doc (and also tlpmgui help).
Perl is required by many important tools: epstopdf, mptopdf, updmap, 
texexec, texdoctk and much more.

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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
StaW at gust.org.pl