[tex-live] texlive 2013 pretest epstopdf problem

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2013-05-23 at 20:46:53 +0800, Wen-Fong Ke wrote:

 > Hi,
 > 
 > There is problem when I am using epstopdf in 2013.  The output of the
 > conversion is:
 > 
 > G:\temp\Apps
 > Temp\lyx_tmpdir.Hp4112\lyx_tmpbuf2>f:\texlive\2013\bin\win32\repstopdf
 > --outfile=0F__wfke_Tex_NSC_Personal_Ke-Pic-eps-converted-to.pdf
 > 0F__wfke_Tex_NSC_Personal_Ke-Pic.eps
 > f:\texlive\2013\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:596: command failed with exit code
 > -1073741819:
 > perl.exe f:/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/epstopdf/epstopdf.pl--restricted
 > --outfile=0F__wfke_Tex_NSC_Personal_Ke-Pic-eps-converted-to.pdf
 > 0F__wfke_Tex_NSC_Personal_Ke-Pic.eps
 > 
 > While using 2012 version it simply went through.
 > 
 > When I run manually
 > 
 > perl.exe f:/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/epstopdf/epstopdf.pl--restricted
 > --outfile=0F__wfke_Tex_NSC_Personal_Ke-Pic-eps-converted-to.pdf
 > 0F__wfke_Tex_NSC_Personal_Ke-Pic.eps
 > 
 > It complaints that
 > 
 > Error: Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input
 > 
 > Same error if I change 2013 to 2012.
 > 
 > I don't know if this is a bug and don't have idea what is happening.

Are you sure that the file "epstopdf.pl--restricted" exists?

***PLEASE*** do not invent error messages yourself!  

If you invoke a non-existent program like "epstopdf.pl--restricted",
how can you get an error message from Ghostscript?

 > While using 2012 version it simply went through.

No, definitely not.  There was no program "epstopdf.pl--restricted" in
TeX Live 2012.

***NEVER*** type error messages yourself, all modern operating systems
and even Windows provide a copy-and-paste facility.

Why do you call the program with a full path?  If this is necessary
your TeX system is broken anyway.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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