[tex-live] epstopdf Issue

[Justin Holewinski]

I'll try it on Windows tonight, but the patch does not seem to work on Mac
OS X.

Thanks,

Justin Holewinski

2009/8/25 Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>

>
> > 1) A BoundingBox (atend) is not (and never has been) supported with
> pipes;
> > 2) epstopdf does not detect this and bail out as soon as it might.
> > Hence Ghostscript is receiving an incomplete PS file, hence the error.
>
> The example test.eps with %%BoundingBox (atend) by Justin can be
> transformed into pdf by
> epstopdf test.eps
> on Windows if we apply the following patch:
>
> --- epstopdf.pl.orig    Mon Jul 20 09:59:05 2009
> +++ epstopdf.pl Tue Aug 25 22:28:54 2009
> @@ -260,6 +260,7 @@
>  else {
>   open(OUT,">$OutputFilename") or error "Cannot write \"$OutputFilename\"";
>  }
> +binmode OUT;
>
>  # reading a cr-eol file on a lf-eol system makes it impossible to parse
>  # the header and besides it will read the intire file into yor line by
> line
>
>
> Best regards,
> Akira
>
>


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Thanks,

Justin Holewinski
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