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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-03 00:00:18 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-03 00:00:18 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/epstopdf.1 b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/epstopdf.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..451e5a3ca1e --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/epstopdf.1 @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +.TH EPSTOPDF 1 "October 30, 1999" +.\" man page by Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> -*- nroff -*- +.SH NAME +epstopdf \- convert an EPS file to PDF +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBepstopdf\fP [\fIoptions\fP] \fIepsfile\fP +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fBepstopdf\fP transforms the Encapsulated PostScript file +\fIepsfile\fP so that it is guaranteed to start at the 0,0 coordinate, +and it sets a page size exactly corresponding to the BoundingBox. +This means that when Ghostscript renders it, the result needs no +cropping, and the PDF MediaBox is correct. The result is piped to +Ghostscript and a PDF version written. +.P +If the bounding box is not right, of course, you have problems... +.SH OPTIONS +.IP "\fB--outfile\fP=\fIfile\fP" +write result to \fIfile\fP instead of standard output. +.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBfilter\fP" +read standard input (default: --nofilter). +.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBgs\fP" +run ghostscript (default: --gs). +.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBcompress\fP" +use compression (default: --compress). +.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBhires\fP" +scan HiresBoundingBox (default: --nohires). +.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBexact\fP" +scan ExactBoundingBox (default: --noexact). +.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBdebug\fP" +debug informations (default: --nodebug). +.IP "\fB--help\fP +print usage +.SH EXAMPLE +Examples for producing "test.pdf": +.nf + +epstopdf test.eps +produce postscript | epstopdf --filter >test.pdf +produce postscript | epstopdf -f -d -o=test.pdf + +.fi +Example: look for HiresBoundingBox and produce corrected PostScript: +.nf + +epstopdf -d --nogs -hires test.ps>testcorr.ps +.fi +.SH BUGS +The only thing I have not allowed for is the case of +"%%BoundingBox: (atend)", which is more complicated. +.SH SEE ALSO +\fBgs\fP(1). +.SH AUTHOR +Sebastian Rahtz, for Elsevier Science. +Now with extra tricks from Hans Hagen's texutil. |