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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2016-06-11 23:21:03 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2016-06-11 23:21:03 +0000
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.TH EPSTOPDF 1 "17 January 2014"
-.\" $Id: epstopdf.1 32701 2014-01-17 18:09:54Z karl $
+.TH EPSTOPDF 1 "28 May 2016"
+.\" $Id: epstopdf.1 41287 2016-05-28 18:09:45Z karl $
.SH NAME
epstopdf, repstopdf \- convert an EPS file to PDF
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ be resulting problems.
.SH OPTIONS
Options may start with either "\fB-\fP" or "\fB--\fP", and may be
unambiguously abbreviated. It is best to use the full option name in
-scripts, though, to avoid possible collisions with new options in the
-future.
+scripts to avoid possible collisions with new options in the future.
.PP
General script options:
.IP "\fB--help\fP
@@ -36,21 +35,21 @@ write result to \fIfile\fP. If this option is not given, and
otherwise, the default is to construct the output file name by replacing
any extension in the input file with `.pdf'.
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBdebug\fP"
-write debugging info (default: off).
+write debugging info (default: false).
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBexact\fP"
-scan ExactBoundingBox (default: off).
+scan ExactBoundingBox (default: false).
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBfilter\fP"
read standard input and (unless \fB--outfile\fP is given) write standard
-output (default: off).
+output (default: false).
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBgs\fP"
-run Ghostscript (default: on). With \fB--nogs\fP, output (to standard
+run Ghostscript (default: true). With \fB--nogs\fP, output (to standard
output by default) the PostScript that would normally be converted; that
is, the input PostScript as modified by \fBepstopdf\fP.
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBhires\fP"
-scan HiresBoundingBox (default: off).
+scan HiresBoundingBox (default: false).
.IP "\fB--restricted\fP=\fIval\fP"
-turn on restricted mode (default: [on for repstopdf, else off]);
-this forbids the use of \fB--gscmd\fP and \fB--gsopt\fP and imposes
+turn on restricted mode (default: [true for repstopdf, else false]);
+this forbids the use of \fB--gscmd\fP and other options and imposes
restrictions on the input and output file names according to the values
of openin_any and openout_any (see the Web2c manual, http://tug.org/web2c).
.PP
@@ -58,26 +57,27 @@ Options for Ghostscript (more info below):
.IP "\fB--gscmd\fP=\fIval\fP"
pipe output to \fIval\fP (default: [\fBgswin32c\fP on Windows, else \fBgs\fP])
.IP "\fB--gsopt\fP=\fIval\fP"
-include \fIval\fP as one argument in the gs command (can be repeated),
+include \fIval\fP as one argument in the gs command (can be repeated).
.IP "\fB--gsopts\fP=\fIval\fP"
-split \fIval\fP at whitespace, include each resulting word as an
-argument in the gs command (can be repeated)
+split \fIval\fP at whitespace and include each resulting word as an
+argument in the gs command (can be repeated).
.IP "\fB--autorotate\fP=\fIval\fP"
set AutoRotatePages (default: None); recognized \fIval\fP choices:
None, All, PageByPage. For EPS files, PageByPage is equivalent to All.
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBcompress\fP"
-use compression in the output (default: on).
+use compression in the output (default: true).
.IP "\fB--device\fP=\fIdev\fP"
-use -sDEVICE=\fIdev\fP (default: pdfwrite); not all devices are allowed
-in restricted mode.
+use -sDEVICE=\fIdev\fP (default: pdfwrite); not allowed in restricted mode.
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBembed\fP"
-embed fonts (default: on).
+embed fonts (default: true).
+.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBgray\fP"
+grayscale output (default: false).
.IP "\fB--pdfsettings\fP=\fIval\fP"
use -dPDFSETTINGS=/\fIval\fP (default is `prepress' if \fB--embed\fP,
else empty); recognized \fIval\fP choices: screen, ebook, printer,
-prepress, default.
+repress, default.
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBquiet\fP"
-use -q, a.k.a. -dQUIET (default: off).
+use -q, a.k.a. -dQUIET (default: false).
.IP "\fB--res\fP=\fIdpi, dpi\fPx\fIdpi\fP"
set image resolution (default: [use gs default]); ignored if
\fB--debug\fP is set.
@@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ line. It can be used multiple times to specify options separately,
and is necessary if an option or its value contains whitespace.
.PP
In restricted mode, options are limited to those with names and values
-known to be safe; some options taking booleans, integers or fixed
+known to be safe. Some options taking booleans, integers or fixed
names are allowed, those taking general strings are not.
.SH EXAMPLES
-Examples all equivalently converting `test.eps' to `test.pdf':
+These examples all equivalently convert `test.eps' to `test.pdf':
.nf
epstopdf test.eps
cat test.eps | epstopdf --filter >test.pdf
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Example for using HiResBoundingBox instead of BoundingBox:
epstopdf --hires test.eps
.fi
.PP
-Example for producing \fBepstopdf\fP's attempt at corrected PostScript:
+Example for \fBepstopdf\fP's attempt at correcting PostScript:
.nf
$program --nogs test.ps >testcorr.ps
.fi