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Epspdf and epspdftk
-
- A multiplatform GUI- and command-line converter for [e]ps and pdf.
-
- Siep Kroonenberg,
- siepo at cybercomm dot nl
-
- [1]Current online version of this page
-
- Table of Contents
-
- * [2]Features
- * [3]Prerequisites
- * [4]Installation
- * [5]Preview programs
- * [6]Files
- * [7]Releases
- * [8]User Manual
-
- Features
-
- * Distiller
- * Works both for documents and for graphics
- * Single-page selection
- * Also converts from pdf back to PostScript and eps
- * Removal of preview headers from eps files
- * Cropping extra whitespace
- * Grayscaling (sometimes)
- * GUI- and command-line version
- * GUI-configurable preferences
- * Multiplatform: works unchanged on Windows, Unix/Linux and Mac OS X
- * Support for TeX Live and MiKTeX
-
- Epspdf has been created with TeX in mind. For TeX and its derivatives, eps
- and pdf are the preferred graphics formats.
-
- Ghostscript can convert PostScript to pdf. However, few people are
- prepared to deal with the ghostscript command-line. Several command-line
- utilities try to help out, e.g. epstopdf, a2ping, and the convert utility
- from ImageMagick. But many users simply want a GUI.
-
- Epspdftk adds a GUI, with buttons to select options and with dialogs for
- opening and saving files.
-
- A lot more can be done if you can round-trip between PostScript and pdf.
- Although Ghostscript can go from pdf to PostScript, pdftops does a much
- better job converting text back to PostScript. This opens several new
- possibilities: grayscaling and computing a better boundingbox for either
- eps- or pdf graphics, and page selection from multipage PostScript- and
- pdf documents. Epspdf will use pdftops if it can find it, and silently
- does whatever back-and-forth conversions are necessary.
-
- The command-line program epspdf is written in Ruby. Epspdftk, its GUI
- companion, in Tcl/Tk. Versions prior to 0.5 were written in Ruby/Tk.
-
- Starting with the 2008 edition, TeX Live includes epspdf as an optional
- package, complete with wrapper scripts epspdf and epspdftk which can be
- called from the command-line without further ado.
-
- There is also a third-party LaTeX package epspdfconversion which uses
- epspdf for on-the-fly conversion of eps graphics to pdf, with options to
- control grayscaling and boundingbox generation. See CTAN or your TeX
- distribution.
-
- Prerequisites
-
- These are the required and optional prerequisites, which will be checked
- for when epspdf starts:
-
- * Ghostscript
- * pdftops from the xpdf suite, strongly recommended for better pdf to
- PostScript conversions
- * Ruby 1.8.x or 1.9.x
- * Tcl/Tk is only required for the GUI interface. Versions 8.4 and 8.5
- have been tested.
- * Optional: viewers for PostScript and pdf
-
- You may not have to install all of these yourself.
-
- Linux
-
- On a current Linux distribution you can almost certainly install
- everything from your distribution's package repositories. As to
- PostScript- and pdf viewers: epspdf tests for several popular viewers, but
- the configuration screen also lets you specify viewers manually.
-
- Mac OS X
-
- Note. Version 0.5.x has not been tested with Tiger.
-
- Ruby and Tcl/Tk are already part of the operating system. Ghostscript is
- included in MacTeX, but is also available via e.g. MacPorts. You can get
- pdftops from MacPorts as part of either Poppler or xpdf. Another source is
- [9]http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/.
-
- If you want to compile xpdf yourself, which is not hard, you can ignore
- warnings about X, Motif or FreeType not being found since these missing
- libraries won't affect the compilation of pdftops.
-
- Windows (Windows 2000 and later)
-
- By itself, Windows lacks any of the prerequisites of epspdf. However, a
- TeX installation may fill some of the gaps, and there is a special Windows
- installer which takes care of the Ruby- and Tcl/Tk requirements. See the
- table below:
-
- TeX distribution Installer Zipfile
- (1) MikTeX and TeX Live ≥ 2008 include a hidden Ghostscript which is
- always installed, and which epspdf knows how to find. Caveat: although
- older versions of TeX Live include a Ghostscript installer, it is not
- impossible to install an older TeX Live without Ghostscript, in which case
- you have to provide a Ghostscript yourself.
- (2) With TeX Live ≥ 2008, you are better off installing the TeX Live
- package, which also gives you wrappers for epspdf and epspdftk for use on
- the command-line and for on-the-fly conversions. You still need to install
- Ruby and Tcl/Tk.
- TeX Live[10](1) No additional Ruby, Tcl/Tk[11](2)
- requirements
- MiKTeX Pdftops (optional) Pdftops (optional); Ruby,
- Tcl/Tk(optional)
- Ghostscript, pdftops Ghostscript;
- Other/None (optional) pdftops(optional), Ruby,
- Tcl/Tk (optional)
-
- URLs for the prerequisites
-
- Ghostscript and GSview ([12]http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
- Contains sources and Windows binaries. The Windows binaries come
- with standard GUI Windows setup programs.
-
- XPDF ([13]http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)
- Sources and Windows binaries. The Windows binaries are packaged
- into a zipfile, which has to be manually unpacked. The Configure
- screen of epspdftk lets you browse for the chosen location. You
- have to do this only once.
-
- XPDF, Mac OS X binaries ([14]http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/)
- These are universal binaries.
-
- TeX Live ([15]http://www.tug.org/texlive/)
- TeX Live ≥ 2008 includes pdftops, Ghostscript and optionally
- epspdf.
-
- MacTeX ([16]http://www.tug.org/mactex/)
- MacTeX is based on TeX Live. Its set of add-ons includes
- Ghostscript, and can be downloaded separately.
-
- The MacPorts Project ([17]http://www.macports.org/)
- MacTeX has Poppler- and xpdf packages either of which include
- pdftops.
-
- Ruby one-click installer for Windows (
- [18]http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/)
-
- Ruby source code ([19]http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/)
- For those people who prefer to roll their own...
-
- Tcl Developer Xchange ([20]http://www.tcl.tk/)
-
- ActiveTcl from ActiveState (
- [21]http://activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/
-
- Installation
-
- First make sure that the prerequisites are met. Then:
-
- TeX Live ≥ 2008
-
- Use TeX Live's package manager tlmgr for installation.
-
- Windows setup program
-
- Download the [22]epspdftk setup program. You can run it in the usual way,
- by double-clicking. The setup program will create entries in your start
- menu for epspdftk and for the user manual.
-
- The setup program has been created with [23]NSIS.
-
- Windows zipfile
-
- Download the [24]epspdf zip file, unpack it somewhere and create a
- batchfile epspdf.bat such as
-
- ruby "<path_to_epspdf.rb>" %*
-
- for epspdf.rb, and a batchfile epspdftk.bat
-
- wish85 "<path_to_epspdftk.tcl>" %1
-
- for epspdftk.tcl. The wish executable might also be named wish[.exe] or
- wish84[.exe]. The first command-line parameter will be interpreted as
- startup directory for the file browser. Make sure that wish85, ruby and
- these batchfiles are on your searchpath.
-
- Epspdf[tk] has been tested with Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7.
-
- Unix/Linux
-
- Download the [25]tar.gz archive and unpack it in some directory. If you
- plan to use epspdf.rb from the command-line, create a symlink to epspdf.rb
- somewhere on your searchpath.
-
- You can do the same for epspdftk. The first command-line parameter will be
- interpreted as startup directory for the file browser.
-
- Mac OS X
-
- Although you can install as for Unix/Linux, there is also a compressed
- disk image epspdf.x.x.x.dmg.gz which wraps epspdftk into a Max OS X "app".
- Double-click once to expand, a second time to mount, then drag
- epspdftk.app to the Applications folder.
-
- Epspdf mostly duplicates functionality of Preview. But having an alternate
- conversion engine means that you can have another shot at problem files.
-
- Preview programs
-
- Windows
-
- Epspdftk will use the default Windows programs for PostScript and pdf.
-
- Unix/Linux
-
- Supported PostScript viewers include evince, gv and okular. These are also
- listed as pdf viewers. Additional pdf viewers are xpdf, kpdf, epdfview and
- acroread/Adobe Reader. You can also specify a previewer manually in the
- configuration screen; see the [26]user manual..
-
- Mac OS X
-
- Epspdftk uses the default pdf viewer under OS X, usually Preview or Adobe
- Reader.
-
- Files
-
- * [27]epspdf.0.5.3.tgz preferred for Unix and Mac OS X
- * [28]epspdf.0.5.3.zip preferred for Windows if you don't want to use
- the installer below
- * [29]epspdf.0.5.3.exe Windows setup program, including Ruby subset. The
- epspdftk script has been packaged with a basic Tcl/Tk into a single
- exe file (starpack).
- * [30]epspdftk.0.5.3.dmg.gz compressed disk image with epspdftk wrapped
- into a Mac OS X "app"
-
- Older releases
-
- * [31]epspdftk.0.4.3.dmg.gz; GUI doesn't work on Snow Leopard
- * [32]epspdf.0.4.3.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
- * [33]epspdf.0.4.3.zip for Windows
- * [34]epspdf.0.4.3.exe Windows setup program
- * [35]epspdftk.0.4.2.dmg.gz; tested on Tiger and Leopard
- * [36]epspdf.0.3.0.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
- * [37]epspdf.0.3.0.zip for Windows
- * [38]epspdf.0.3.0.exe Windows setup program
- * [39]epspdf.0.2.12.tgz for Unix, including Mac OS X
- * [40]epspdf.0.2.12.zip for Windows
- * [41]epspdf.0.2.12.exe Windows setup program
- * [42]epspdf.0.2.01.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
- * [43]epspdf.0.2.01.zip for Windows
- * [44]epspdf.0.2.exe, Windows setup program
- * [45]epspdf_app.0.2.01.zip Mac OS X applet for starting epspdftk.rb
-
- Releases
-
- 0.5.3
- Current version. Minor initialization fix for Windows. The
- AppleScript wrapper for Mac OS X no longer starts a terminal. For
- users of Linux/Unix, there is no reason to upgrade.
-
- 0.5.2
- Under Unix, wrapper scripts can now be replaced with simple
- symlinks.
-
- 0.5.1
- Bug fix for boundingbox atend.
-
- 0.5
- Ruby/Tk GUI replaced with Tcl/Tk GUI. Starpack wrapper for Windows
- setup version.
-
- 0.4.3
- Fixes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9 and, under Windows, for
- newer Ghostscript versions. Documentation updates.
-
- 0.4.2
- More liberal documentation license. Slight documentation updates.
-
- 0.4.1
- Documentation: added section on bitmaps. Windows setup program:
- added missing Tcl/Tk licenses. Mac: double-clickable epspdftk.app
- with included epspdftk replaces double-clickable epspdf.app
- add-on.
-
- 0.4.0
- Optionally uses hires boundingbox. Faster startup due to simpler
- testing of prerequisites. Grayscaling: support for HSB color
- model, although I yet have to encounter a PostScript file using
- this. Manual converted to texinfo format. Windows: new "View
- with..." button; support for MikTeX's built-in Ghostscript;
- streamlined Ruby subset, with Tcl/Tk compiled from source.
-
- 0.3.0
- Under Windows, now recognizes whether it is embedded in TeX Live
- 2008 and then can use ghostscript/pdftops from TeX Live. Also
- added TeX Live wrapper scripts. Uninstaller for Windows setup
- program. Bug fixes: now accepts non-numerical version strings for
- pdftops. No longer checks for viewers under Mac OS X.
-
- 0.2.12
- Bug fixes: log rotation now works. Under Windows, sometimes
- boundingboxes couldn't be calculated. This was caused by double
- quotes within backquotes. This is now avoided by using short
- filenames within backquotes. Minor changes in user guide.
-
- 0.2.11
- Minor fixes. Changes in documentation.
-
- 0.2.10
- A computed boundingbox is now expanded by one point in all
- directions. This should prevent too-tight cropping. There is no
- interface for changing this amount; it can only be changed by
- hand-editing the bb_spread option in the .epspdfrc file or in the
- HKCU\software\epspdf registry key.
- The File Open dialog remembers the last directory visited (between
- calls, not between program sessions).
- Changes in documentation.
-
- 0.2.01
- Fixes to the Applescript applet epspdf.app for starting up
- epspdftk under Mac OS X. It picks up the terminal search path and
- no longer requires correct settings in
- $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Epspdf.app is now packaged
- separately, under Mac OS X, and now has an intact resource fork.
- It has been removed from the other archives.
-
- 0.2
- Original release
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Last revised: February 27, 2011
-
- References
-
- Visible links
- 1. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/
- 2. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#features
- 3. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#prerequisites
- 4. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#install
- 5. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#preview
- 6. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#files
- 7. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#releases
- 8. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.pdf
- 9. http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/
- 10. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#tlnote
- 11. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#tlzipnote
- 12. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
- 13. http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
- 14. http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/
- 15. http://www.tug.org/texlive/
- 16. http://www.tug.org/mactex/
- 17. http://www.macports.org/
- 18. http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
- 19. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
- 20. http://www.tcl.tk/
- 21. http://activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/
- 22. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.exe
- 23. http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
- 24. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.zip
- 25. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.tgz
- 26. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.pdf
- 27. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.tgz
- 28. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.zip
- 29. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.exe
- 30. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.5.3.dmg.gz
- 31. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.4.3.dmg.gz
- 32. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.tgz
- 33. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.zip
- 34. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.exe
- 35. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.4.2.dmg.gz
- 36. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.tgz
- 37. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.zip
- 38. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.exe
- 39. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.tgz
- 40. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.zip
- 41. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.exe
- 42. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.01.tgz
- 43. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.01.zip
- 44. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.exe
- 45. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf_app.0.2.01.zip
- \ No newline at end of file
+
+ A multiplatform GUI- and command-line converter for [e]ps and pdf.
+
+ Siep Kroonenberg,
+ siepo at cybercomm dot nl
+
+ [1]Current online version of this page
+
+Table of Contents
+
+ * [2]Features
+ * [3]Prerequisites
+ * [4]Installation
+ * [5]Preview programs
+ * [6]Files
+ * [7]Releases
+ * [8]User Manual
+
+Features
+
+ * Distiller
+ * Works both for documents and for graphics
+ * Single-page selection
+ * Also converts from pdf back to PostScript and eps
+ * Removal of preview headers from eps files
+ * Cropping extra whitespace
+ * Grayscaling (sometimes)
+ * GUI- and command-line version
+ * GUI-configurable preferences
+ * Multiplatform: works unchanged on Windows, Unix/Linux and Mac OS X
+ * Support for TeX Live and MiKTeX
+
+ Epspdf has been created with TeX in mind. For TeX and its derivatives, eps
+ and pdf are the preferred graphics formats.
+
+ Ghostscript can convert PostScript to pdf. However, few people are
+ prepared to deal with the ghostscript command-line. Several command-line
+ utilities try to help out, e.g. epstopdf, a2ping, and the convert utility
+ from ImageMagick. But many users simply want a GUI.
+
+ Epspdftk adds a GUI, with buttons to select options and with dialogs for
+ opening and saving files.
+
+ A lot more can be done if you can round-trip between PostScript and pdf.
+ Although Ghostscript can go from pdf to PostScript, pdftops does a much
+ better job converting text back to PostScript. This opens several new
+ possibilities: grayscaling and computing a better boundingbox for either
+ eps- or pdf graphics, and page selection from multipage PostScript- and
+ pdf documents. Epspdf will use pdftops if it can find it, and silently
+ does whatever back-and-forth conversions are necessary.
+
+ The command-line program epspdf is written in Ruby. Epspdftk, its GUI
+ companion, in Tcl/Tk. Versions prior to 0.5 were written in Ruby/Tk.
+
+ Starting with the 2008 edition, TeX Live includes epspdf as an optional
+ package, complete with wrapper scripts epspdf and epspdftk which can be
+ called from the command-line without further ado.
+
+ There is also a third-party LaTeX package epspdfconversion which uses
+ epspdf for on-the-fly conversion of eps graphics to pdf, with options to
+ control grayscaling and boundingbox generation. See CTAN or your TeX
+ distribution.
+
+Prerequisites
+
+ These are the required and optional prerequisites, which will be checked
+ for when epspdf starts:
+
+ * Ghostscript
+ * pdftops from the xpdf suite, strongly recommended for better pdf to
+ PostScript conversions
+ * Ruby 1.8.x or 1.9.x
+ * Tcl/Tk is only required for the GUI interface. Versions 8.4 and 8.5
+ have been tested.
+ * Optional: viewers for PostScript and pdf
+
+ You may not have to install all of these yourself.
+
+ Linux
+
+ On a current Linux distribution you can almost certainly install
+ everything from your distribution's package repositories. As to
+ PostScript- and pdf viewers: epspdf tests for several popular viewers, but
+ the configuration screen also lets you specify viewers manually.
+
+ Mac OS X
+
+ Note. Version 0.5.x has not been tested with Tiger.
+
+ Ruby and Tcl/Tk are already part of the operating system. Ghostscript is
+ included in MacTeX, but is also available via e.g. MacPorts. You can get
+ pdftops from MacPorts as part of either Poppler or xpdf. Another source is
+ [9]http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/.
+
+ If you want to compile xpdf yourself, which is not hard, you can ignore
+ warnings about X, Motif or FreeType not being found since these missing
+ libraries won't affect the compilation of pdftops.
+
+ Windows (Windows 2000 and later)
+
+ By itself, Windows lacks any of the prerequisites of epspdf. However, a
+ TeX installation may fill some of the gaps, and there is a special Windows
+ installer which takes care of the Ruby- and Tcl/Tk requirements. See the
+ table below:
+
+ TeX distribution Installer Zipfile
+ (1) MikTeX and TeX Live ≥ 2008 include a hidden Ghostscript which is
+ always installed, and which epspdf knows how to find. Caveat: although
+ older versions of TeX Live include a Ghostscript installer, it is not
+ impossible to install an older TeX Live without Ghostscript, in which case
+ you have to provide a Ghostscript yourself.
+ (2) With TeX Live ≥ 2008, you are better off installing the TeX Live
+ package, which also gives you wrappers for epspdf and epspdftk for use on
+ the command-line and for on-the-fly conversions. You still need to install
+ Ruby and Tcl/Tk.
+ TeX Live[10](1) No additional Ruby, Tcl/Tk[11](2)
+ requirements
+ MiKTeX Pdftops (optional) Pdftops (optional); Ruby,
+ Tcl/Tk(optional)
+ Ghostscript, pdftops Ghostscript;
+ Other/None (optional) pdftops(optional), Ruby,
+ Tcl/Tk (optional)
+
+ URLs for the prerequisites
+
+ Ghostscript and GSview ([12]http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
+ Contains sources and Windows binaries. The Windows binaries come
+ with standard GUI Windows setup programs.
+
+ XPDF ([13]http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)
+ Sources and Windows binaries. The Windows binaries are packaged
+ into a zipfile, which has to be manually unpacked. The Configure
+ screen of epspdftk lets you browse for the chosen location. You
+ have to do this only once.
+
+ XPDF, Mac OS X binaries ([14]http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/)
+ These are universal binaries.
+
+ TeX Live ([15]http://www.tug.org/texlive/)
+ TeX Live ≥ 2008 includes pdftops, Ghostscript and optionally
+ epspdf.
+
+ MacTeX ([16]http://www.tug.org/mactex/)
+ MacTeX is based on TeX Live. Its set of add-ons includes
+ Ghostscript, and can be downloaded separately.
+
+ The MacPorts Project ([17]http://www.macports.org/)
+ MacTeX has Poppler- and xpdf packages either of which include
+ pdftops.
+
+ Ruby one-click installer for Windows (
+ [18]http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/)
+
+ Ruby source code ([19]http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/)
+ For those people who prefer to roll their own...
+
+ Tcl Developer Xchange ([20]http://www.tcl.tk/)
+
+ ActiveTcl from ActiveState (
+ [21]http://activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/
+
+Installation
+
+ First make sure that the prerequisites are met. Then:
+
+ TeX Live ≥ 2008
+
+ Use TeX Live's package manager tlmgr for installation.
+
+ Windows setup program
+
+ Download the [22]epspdftk setup program. You can run it in the usual way,
+ by double-clicking. The setup program will create entries in your start
+ menu for epspdftk and for the user manual.
+
+ The setup program has been created with [23]NSIS.
+
+ Windows zipfile
+
+ Download the [24]epspdf zip file, unpack it somewhere and create a
+ batchfile epspdf.bat such as
+
+ ruby "<path_to_epspdf.rb>" %*
+
+ for epspdf.rb, and a batchfile epspdftk.bat
+
+ wish85 "<path_to_epspdftk.tcl>" %1
+
+ for epspdftk.tcl. The wish executable might also be named wish[.exe] or
+ wish84[.exe]. The first command-line parameter will be interpreted as
+ startup directory for the file browser. Make sure that wish85, ruby and
+ these batchfiles are on your searchpath.
+
+ Epspdf[tk] has been tested with Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7.
+
+ Unix/Linux
+
+ Download the [25]tar.gz archive and unpack it in some directory. If you
+ plan to use epspdf.rb from the command-line, create a symlink to epspdf.rb
+ somewhere on your searchpath.
+
+ You can do the same for epspdftk. The first command-line parameter will be
+ interpreted as startup directory for the file browser.
+
+ Mac OS X
+
+ Although you can install as for Unix/Linux, there is also a compressed
+ disk image epspdf.x.x.x.dmg.gz which wraps epspdftk into a Max OS X "app".
+ Double-click once to expand, a second time to mount, then drag
+ epspdftk.app to the Applications folder.
+
+ Epspdf mostly duplicates functionality of Preview. But having an alternate
+ conversion engine means that you can have another shot at problem files.
+
+Preview programs
+
+ Windows
+
+ Epspdftk will use the default Windows programs for PostScript and pdf.
+
+ Unix/Linux
+
+ Supported PostScript viewers include evince, gv and okular. These are also
+ listed as pdf viewers. Additional pdf viewers are xpdf, kpdf, epdfview and
+ acroread/Adobe Reader. You can also specify a previewer manually in the
+ configuration screen; see the [26]user manual..
+
+ Mac OS X
+
+ Epspdftk uses the default pdf viewer under OS X, usually Preview or Adobe
+ Reader.
+
+Files
+
+ * [27]epspdf.0.5.3.tgz preferred for Unix and Mac OS X
+ * [28]epspdf.0.5.3.zip preferred for Windows if you don't want to use
+ the installer below
+ * [29]epspdf.0.5.3.exe Windows setup program, including Ruby subset. The
+ epspdftk script has been packaged with a basic Tcl/Tk into a single
+ exe file (starpack).
+ * [30]epspdftk.0.5.3.dmg.gz compressed disk image with epspdftk wrapped
+ into a Mac OS X "app"
+
+ Older releases
+
+ * [31]epspdftk.0.4.3.dmg.gz; GUI doesn't work on Snow Leopard
+ * [32]epspdf.0.4.3.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
+ * [33]epspdf.0.4.3.zip for Windows
+ * [34]epspdf.0.4.3.exe Windows setup program
+ * [35]epspdftk.0.4.2.dmg.gz; tested on Tiger and Leopard
+ * [36]epspdf.0.3.0.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
+ * [37]epspdf.0.3.0.zip for Windows
+ * [38]epspdf.0.3.0.exe Windows setup program
+ * [39]epspdf.0.2.12.tgz for Unix, including Mac OS X
+ * [40]epspdf.0.2.12.zip for Windows
+ * [41]epspdf.0.2.12.exe Windows setup program
+ * [42]epspdf.0.2.01.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
+ * [43]epspdf.0.2.01.zip for Windows
+ * [44]epspdf.0.2.exe, Windows setup program
+ * [45]epspdf_app.0.2.01.zip Mac OS X applet for starting epspdftk.rb
+
+Releases
+
+ 0.5.3
+ Current version. Minor initialization fix for Windows. The
+ AppleScript wrapper for Mac OS X no longer starts a terminal. For
+ users of Linux/Unix, there is no reason to upgrade.
+
+ 0.5.2
+ Under Unix, wrapper scripts can now be replaced with simple
+ symlinks.
+
+ 0.5.1
+ Bug fix for boundingbox atend.
+
+ 0.5
+ Ruby/Tk GUI replaced with Tcl/Tk GUI. Starpack wrapper for Windows
+ setup version.
+
+ 0.4.3
+ Fixes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9 and, under Windows, for
+ newer Ghostscript versions. Documentation updates.
+
+ 0.4.2
+ More liberal documentation license. Slight documentation updates.
+
+ 0.4.1
+ Documentation: added section on bitmaps. Windows setup program:
+ added missing Tcl/Tk licenses. Mac: double-clickable epspdftk.app
+ with included epspdftk replaces double-clickable epspdf.app
+ add-on.
+
+ 0.4.0
+ Optionally uses hires boundingbox. Faster startup due to simpler
+ testing of prerequisites. Grayscaling: support for HSB color
+ model, although I yet have to encounter a PostScript file using
+ this. Manual converted to texinfo format. Windows: new "View
+ with..." button; support for MikTeX's built-in Ghostscript;
+ streamlined Ruby subset, with Tcl/Tk compiled from source.
+
+ 0.3.0
+ Under Windows, now recognizes whether it is embedded in TeX Live
+ 2008 and then can use ghostscript/pdftops from TeX Live. Also
+ added TeX Live wrapper scripts. Uninstaller for Windows setup
+ program. Bug fixes: now accepts non-numerical version strings for
+ pdftops. No longer checks for viewers under Mac OS X.
+
+ 0.2.12
+ Bug fixes: log rotation now works. Under Windows, sometimes
+ boundingboxes couldn't be calculated. This was caused by double
+ quotes within backquotes. This is now avoided by using short
+ filenames within backquotes. Minor changes in user guide.
+
+ 0.2.11
+ Minor fixes. Changes in documentation.
+
+ 0.2.10
+ A computed boundingbox is now expanded by one point in all
+ directions. This should prevent too-tight cropping. There is no
+ interface for changing this amount; it can only be changed by
+ hand-editing the bb_spread option in the .epspdfrc file or in the
+ HKCU\software\epspdf registry key.
+ The File Open dialog remembers the last directory visited (between
+ calls, not between program sessions).
+ Changes in documentation.
+
+ 0.2.01
+ Fixes to the Applescript applet epspdf.app for starting up
+ epspdftk under Mac OS X. It picks up the terminal search path and
+ no longer requires correct settings in
+ $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Epspdf.app is now packaged
+ separately, under Mac OS X, and now has an intact resource fork.
+ It has been removed from the other archives.
+
+ 0.2
+ Original release
+
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ Last revised: February 27, 2011
+
+References
+
+ Visible links
+ 1. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/
+ 2. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#features
+ 3. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#prerequisites
+ 4. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#install
+ 5. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#preview
+ 6. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#files
+ 7. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#releases
+ 8. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.pdf
+ 9. http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/
+ 10. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#tlnote
+ 11. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#tlzipnote
+ 12. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
+ 13. http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
+ 14. http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/
+ 15. http://www.tug.org/texlive/
+ 16. http://www.tug.org/mactex/
+ 17. http://www.macports.org/
+ 18. http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
+ 19. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
+ 20. http://www.tcl.tk/
+ 21. http://activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/
+ 22. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.exe
+ 23. http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
+ 24. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.zip
+ 25. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.tgz
+ 26. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.pdf
+ 27. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.tgz
+ 28. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.zip
+ 29. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.3.exe
+ 30. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.5.3.dmg.gz
+ 31. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.4.3.dmg.gz
+ 32. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.tgz
+ 33. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.zip
+ 34. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.exe
+ 35. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.4.2.dmg.gz
+ 36. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.tgz
+ 37. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.zip
+ 38. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.exe
+ 39. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.tgz
+ 40. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.zip
+ 41. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.exe
+ 42. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.01.tgz
+ 43. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.01.zip
+ 44. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.exe
+ 45. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf_app.0.2.01.zip