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author | Siep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl> | 2014-12-07 18:30:33 +0000 |
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committer | Siep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl> | 2014-12-07 18:30:33 +0000 |
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epspdf version 0.6.1
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/epspdf/index.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/epspdf/index.html index 7c6d18d0d15..4208e73b328 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/epspdf/index.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/epspdf/index.html @@ -1,14 +1,10 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!doctype html> -<!DOCTYPE html - PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > - -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<html> <head> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="default.css" type="text/css"/> +<link rel="stylesheet" href="default.css" type="text/css" /> <title>Epspdf and epspdftk</title> @@ -18,15 +14,15 @@ <h1>Epspdf and epspdftk</h1> -<p>A multiplatform GUI- and command-line converter +<p>A cross-platform GUI- and command-line converter for [e]ps and pdf.</p> -<p><i>Siep Kroonenberg,<br/><tt>siepo at cybercomm +<p><i>Siep Kroonenberg,<br /><tt>siepo at cybercomm dot nl</tt></i></p> </div> -<p id="logo"><img src="images/epspdf.png" alt=""/></p> +<p id="logo"><img src="images/epspdf.png" alt="" /></p> <p><a href="http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/">Current online version of this page</a></p> @@ -38,13 +34,14 @@ Ruby-based versions</a></p> <ul> <li><a href="#features">Features</a></li> +<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="#prerequisites">Prerequisites</a></li> <li><a href="#install">Installation</a></li> <li><a href="#files">Files</a></li> <li><a href="#releases">Releases</a></li> </ul> -<h2><a name="features"/>Features</h2> +<h2><a name="features" />Features</h2> <ul> <li>Distiller</li> @@ -54,90 +51,89 @@ Ruby-based versions</a></p> <li>Removal of preview headers from eps files</li> <li>Cropping extra whitespace</li> <li>Grayscaling</li> -<li>GUI- and command-line version</li> +<li>GUI- and command-line use</li> <li>GUI-configurable preferences</li> <li>Multiplatform: works unchanged on Windows and Unix/Linux</li> <li>Support for TeX Live and MiKTeX</li> </ul> -<p>Epspdf has been created with TeX in mind. For TeX and its -derivatives, eps and pdf are the preferred graphics formats.</p> +<h2><a name="introduction" />Introduction</h2> + +<p>For TeX and its derivatives, eps and pdf are the preferred +graphics formats. Epspdf and epspdftk can convert between these, +with various conversion options, and can also handle PostScript +files which aren't eps files. PSTricks users may appreciate the +capability to go from pdf back to PostScript.</p> -<p>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.</p> +<p>Epspdftk is the GUI component, with buttons to select options and +with file dialogs for opening and saving files.</p> -<p>Epspdftk adds a GUI, with buttons to select options and with -dialogs for opening and saving files.</p> +<p>Epspdf is the command-line component, which is used by epspdftk +but can also be used on its own. It uses Ghostscript, luatex and +optionally pdftops to do the real work. Multistep conversions extend +the possibilities.</p> -<p>A lot more can be done with multistep conversions: grayscaling, -page selection, computing a tight boundingbox. People who depend on -PSTricks will appreciate the option to go from pdf to -PostScript.</p> +<p>Conversion options include grayscaling, page selection, computing +a tight boundingbox and some pdf options.</p> -<p>Where it makes sense, epspdf uses additional software for a -better outcome.</p> +<p>The third-party LaTeX package epspdfconversion 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.</p> <p>The command-line program epspdf is written in texlua, which is -already part of recent versions of MikTeX and TeX Live. Versions <a +part of recent versions of MikTeX and TeX Live. Versions <a href="http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/legacy.html">prior to 0.6</a> were written in Ruby. Epspdftk, its GUI companion, is written in in Tcl/Tk.</p> <p>Starting with the 2008 edition, TeX Live includes epspdf in some -form as an optional package, complete with wrapper scripts epspdf -and epspdftk which can be called from the command-line without -further ado.</p> - -<p>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.</p> +form as an optional package.</p> -<h2><a name="prerequisites"/>Prerequisites</h2> +<h2><a name="prerequisites" />Prerequisites</h2> <p>These are the required and optional prerequisites, which will be checked for when epspdf starts:</p> <ul> -<li>A recent TeX installation, either <a +<li>A somewhat recent TeX installation, either <a href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/">TeX Live</a> or <a - href="http://miktex.org/">MikTeX</a>. If this is not an option, + href="http://miktex.org/">MiKTeX</a>. If this is not an option, get a <a href="http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/legacy.html">legacy version</a> of epspdf instead.</li> -<li><a href="http://ghostscript.com">Ghostscript</a></li> +<li><a href="http://ghostscript.com">Ghostscript</a>. This is + already part of MiKTeX and of TeX Live for Windows, and packaged + for most Linux distributions.</li> <li>Optional: pdftops from the <a href="http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/">xpdf suite</a> or from the <a - href="http://poppler.freedesktop.org/">Poppler - utilities</a>. Pdftops may do a better job of preserving scalable - fonts when converting from pdf to ps.</li> + href="http://poppler.freedesktop.org/">Poppler utilities</a>, or as + a package from your Linux distribution. Pdftops may do a better job + of preserving scalable fonts when converting from pdf to + ps. Included in TeX Live for Windows.</li> <li><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/">Tcl/Tk</a> for the GUI - interface. Versions 8.4 and 8.5 have been tested. A single-file <a - href="http://wiki.tcl.tk/52">TclKit</a> runtime is - sufficient. Recent <a - href="http://www.patthoyts.tk/tclkit/win32-ix86/">Windows - precompiled tclkit binaries</a> are available.</li> + interface. Versions 8.4 through 8.6 have been tested. Packaged for + many or most Linux distributions, and also available from <a + href="http://www.activestate.com/activetcl">ActiveState</a>. Alternatively, + a single-file TclKit runtime will do. The <a + href="http://wiki.tcl.tk/52">TclKit</a> page contains various + links for precompiled binaries.</li> <li>Optional: viewers for PostScript and pdf</li> </ul> -<p>On Windows, both MikTeX and TeX Live already include a copy of -Ghostscript. TeX Live for Windows also includes pdftops.</p> - <p>If you have MiKTeX and a copy of pdftops.exe, then you can point epspdf to this file from within the GUI. You need to do this only once.</p> -<h2><a name="install"/>Installation</h2> +<h2><a name="install" />Installation</h2> -<p>If you have a sufficiently recent standalone TeX Live, just - install the package. Otherwise:</p> +<p>If you have a sufficiently recent standalone TeX Live and have a + Tcl/Tk installation or runtime, just + install the TeX Live package. Otherwise:</p> <h3>Unix/Linux</h3> @@ -147,14 +143,16 @@ once.</p> <h3>Windows setup program</h3> <p>This is a conventional Windows installer. If it does not find -texlua.exe on the searchpath then it gives a warning and a chance to +texlua.exe on the searchpath then it gives a warning and a opportunity to abort. It creates a shortcut to the epspdftk GUI and it also creates an uninstaller.</p> <p>It installs epspdftk in the form of a so-called -<em>starpack</em>, which -consists of the epspdftk script and a Tcl/Tk runtime, wrapped into -a single file. The command-line script epspdf.tlu remains a separate +<em>starpack</em>, which consists of the epspdftk script and a +Tcl/Tk runtime, combined into a single executable. For version 0.6.1, +the Tcl/Tk 8.5 runtime is from the <a +href="http://tclkits.rkeene.org/fossil/wiki/Downloads"> KitCreator +project</a>. The command-line script epspdf.tlu remains a separate file.</p> <p>This installer has been created with <a @@ -172,45 +170,49 @@ texlua "<path_to_epspdf.tlu>" %* <p>for epspdf.tlu, and a batchfile epspdftk.bat</p> <pre> -wish85 "<path_to_epspdftk.tcl>" %1 +wish "<path_to_epspdftk.tcl>" %1 </pre> <p>for epspdftk.tcl. The wish executable might also be named - wish[.exe] or wish84[.exe]. The first command-line parameter will + wish85[.exe] or wish86[.exe], or tclkit[.exe] if it is a + single-file Tcl/Tk runtime. The first command-line parameter will be interpreted as startup directory for the file browser. Make - sure that wish85 and these batchfiles are on your searchpath.</p> + sure that wish and these batchfiles are on your searchpath.</p> <p>Epspdf[tk] has been tested with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.</p> -<h2><a name="files"/>Files</h2> +<h2><a name="files" />Files</h2> <ul> - <li><a href="epspdf.0.6.03.tgz">epspdf.0.6.0.tgz</a> preferred for Unix + <li><a href="epspdf.0.6.1.tgz">epspdf.0.6.1.tgz</a> preferred for Unix and Mac OS X</li> -<li><a href="epspdf.0.6.0.zip">epspdf.0.6.0.zip</a> preferred for +<li><a href="epspdf.0.6.1.zip">epspdf.0.6.1.zip</a> preferred for Windows if you don't want to use the installer below</li> -<li><a href="epspdf.0.6.0.exe">epspdf.0.6.0.exe</a> Windows setup - program which installs epspdf with a buit-in Tcl/Tk runtime.</li> +<li><a href="epspdf.0.6.1.exe">epspdf.0.6.1.exe</a> Windows setup + program which installs epspdf with a built-in Tcl/Tk runtime: no + dependencies beyond a TeX Live- or MiKTeX installation.</li> </ul> -<h2><a name="releases"/>Releases</h2> +<h2><a name="releases" />Releases</h2> <ul> -<li>0.6.0 Current version. Command-line component -rewritten in texlua.</li> +<li>0.6.1 Current version. Bug fixes, see Changelog; support for later + Ghostscript versions.</li> + +<li>0.6.0 First release of luatex version.</li> <li><a href="http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/legacy.html">Legacy Ruby-based versions</a></li> </ul> -<hr/> +<hr /> -<p class="fineprint">Last revised: February 7, 2013</p> +<p class="fineprint">Last revised: December 5, 2014</p> </body></html> |