[tex-live] Further ghostscript problems, this time epstopdf

[Ken Brown]

On 12/10/2018 6:03 PM, Akira Kakuto wrote:
>> I have some difficulties running epstopdf with TeXLive 2018
>> (and gs 9.26 in cygwin64)
> 
> If you are using TeX Live 2018 x86_64-cygwin, that should be OK.
> Are you uging TeX Live 2018 W32 with cygwin64 ghostscript?
> I'm not familiar with this kind of mixed usage.
> Please try not to use gs 9.26 in cygwin64.
> In this case, the preinstalled gs 9.26 for W32 may be used.
> 
> Here, outputs for
> epstopdf --debug grfig0.eps
> are :
> 
> * kpsewhich command: kpsewhich
> * Input filename: grfig0.eps
> * Output filename: grfig0.pdf
> * BoundingBox comment: %%BoundingBox:
> * Ghostscript command: gswin32c
> * Compression: on
> * Embedding: on
> * Grayscale: off
> * PDFSettings: prepress
> * Resolution: [use gs default]
> * Rotation: None
> * Using temporary file 'C:\usr\tmp\Jsd1oHG9Iq'
> * Binary junk at start of file: 0 byte(s)
> * Scanning header for BoundingBox
> * Old BoundingBox: 166 409 444 667
> * New BoundingBox: 0 0 278 258
> * Offset: -166 -409
> * Ghostscript command: gswin32c -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=grfig0.pdf
> -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true
> -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dAutoRotatePages#/None C:\usr\tmp\Jsd1oHG9Iq -c
> quit
> GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
> Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> * Done.

I agree with your advice about not mixing Cygwin tools with native Windows 
tools.  Here's what I see on Cygwin, with the texlive-collection-fontutils 
package installed:

$ epstopdf --debug circle.eps
* kpsewhich command: kpsewhich
* Input filename: circle.eps
* Output filename: circle.pdf
* BoundingBox comment: %%BoundingBox:
* Ghostscript command: gs
* Compression: on
* Embedding: on
* Grayscale: off
* PDFSettings: prepress
* Resolution: [use gs default]
* Rotation: None
* Using temporary file '/tmp/HF1rXuhm_I'
* Binary junk at start of file: 0 byte(s)
* Scanning header for BoundingBox
* Old BoundingBox: 36 36 576 756
* New BoundingBox: 0 0 540 720
* Offset: -36 -36
* Ghostscript command: gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite 
-sOutputFile=circle.pdf -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 
-dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dAutoRotatePages#/None /tmp/HF1rXuhm_I 
-c quit
GPL Ghostscript 9.26 (2018-11-20)
Copyright (C) 2018 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Loading P052-Roman font from 
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.26/Resource/Font/P052-Roman... 5066148 3581120 2147032 
815405 2 done.
* Done.