sam2p broken (on windows)

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 12:32:54PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg via tex-live wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:48:23AM +0200, Uwe Siart wrote:
> > It looks like sam2p is somehow broken. Any call of sam2p in the form
> > 
> > sam2p file.jpg file.eps
> > 
> > will only produce a zero-byte file file.eps. I tried both jpg and png
> > bitmaps and also more than just one file. But all the same. sam2p won't
> > produce any output.
> > 
> > I can only speak for windows and can't tell if the same problem appears
> > on other platforms. In TL22 sam2p works fine for me.
> 
> My experience with sam2p is that it often does not work, but I did
> find a graphic that sam2p could convert with TL2022 but not with
> TL2023. So youmay be right.
> 
> An alternative is bmeps:
> 
> bmeps -c file.png file.eps
> 
> The -c option is necessary to get color output.

Both utilities are windows-only.

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Siep Kroonenberg