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authorSiep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl>2016-05-06 12:21:28 +0000
committerSiep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl>2016-05-06 12:21:28 +0000
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epspdf 0.6.3 compatibility fixes for luatex 0.95
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Epspdf and epsdftk
+Epspdf and epspdftk
1 Usage
1.1 Overview
1.2 Viewing
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ Epspdf and epsdftk
6.1 Version 0.6
6.2 Version 0.5
6.3 Version 0.4
-Epspdf and epsdftk
-******************
+Epspdf and epspdftk
+*******************
-This manual is for epspdf, version 0.6.2.
+This manual is for epspdf, version 0.6.3.
-Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 Siep
+Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Siep
Kroonenberg.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ shapes or little bitmaps, so use pdftops if available. With newer
Ghostscript versions, with an eps2write rather than an epswrite output
device, Ghostscript does a much better job.
-Under MikTeX, this is also the place to point the program to the
-location of pdftops.exe.
+Under an older MikTeX without bundled pdftops, this is also the place to
+point the program to the location of pdftops.exe.
2 Command-line usage
********************
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ Basic usage of epspdf itself:
Typing 'epspdf --help' gives you the following summary:
$ epspdf --help
- Epspdf version 0.6.2
- Copyright (c) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 Siep Kroonenberg
+ Epspdf version 0.6.3
+ Copyright (c) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Siep Kroonenberg
Convert between [e]ps and pdf formats
Usage: epspdf[.tlu] [options] infile [outfile]
@@ -325,8 +325,9 @@ excellent alternative to epspdf.
4.3 Windows
===========
-Windows is not a particularly friendly environment for PostScript or
-pdf. A couple of command-line utilities try to fill the gap, _e.g._
+I know of no built-in facility for converting bitmaps to eps or pdf.
+However, many image editors can convert to eps or pdf. A couple of
+command-line utilities:
sam2p image.png image.eps
or
bmeps -c image.png image.eps
@@ -397,9 +398,10 @@ Logfile. The GUI has a button for viewing log output. This same output
is also written to a file 'epspdf.log'. For Linux/Unix/Mac OS X this is
in a subdirectory .epspdf of your home directory; for Windows it is in a
subdirectory epspdf of '%APPDATA%'. This APPDATA directory may be
-'c:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER NAME\Application Data' or
-'c:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Roaming'. Type 'echo %APPDATA%' to
-find out which.
+'c:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Roaming' or 'c:\Documents and
+Settings\YOUR USER NAME\Application Data'. Type
+ echo %APPDATA%
+in a Command Prompt window to find out which.
The logfile lists all epspdf calls and all Ghostscript- and pdftops
calls plus error information.