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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2018-09-16 23:03:58 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2018-09-16 23:03:58 +0000
commitb4381db4bc78db78eaa9d4cefd5a9da89d514616 (patch)
tree06b7afbeb503e51d29c96990daed355be84543fb /Build/extra/epstopdf/epstopdf.1
parent0867a8a02cc58766a0434a1f7124cd1202b4fe70 (diff)
epstopdf 2.28: PDF 1.5 by default, since gs9.25 changed to 1.7
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@48681 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Build/extra/epstopdf/epstopdf.1 b/Build/extra/epstopdf/epstopdf.1
index 0405e4499f3..c16262939e0 100644
--- a/Build/extra/epstopdf/epstopdf.1
+++ b/Build/extra/epstopdf/epstopdf.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH EPSTOPDF 1 "7 January 2017"
+.TH EPSTOPDF 1 "17 September 2018"
.\" $Id$
.SH NAME
epstopdf, repstopdf \- convert an EPS file to PDF
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ replaced by \fB.pdf\fP. An output name ending with .pdf can also be given
as a second argument on the command line, or the \fB--outfile\fP
(\fB-o\fP) option can be used with any name.
.PP
+The output is PDF 1.5 by default; use, e.g.,
+.nf
+--gsopt=-dCompatibilityLevel=1.7
+.fi
+to change this. (Until epstopdf 2.28 (released September 2018), the
+PDF version was whatever the underlying Ghostscript or other interpreter
+produced by default.)
+.PP
PJL commands at the start of a file are removed. DOS EPS binary files
(TN 5002) are supported.
.PP
@@ -151,4 +159,4 @@ Man page originally written by Jim Van Zandt.
.PP
epstopdf home page: http://tug.org/epstopdf.
.PP
-You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
+You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this man page.