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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/epspdf/epspdf.help b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/epspdf/epspdf.help index 1fac2734fa8..6a5687aed69 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/epspdf/epspdf.help +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/epspdf/epspdf.help @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ Epspdf and epsdftk ****************** -This manual is for epspdf, version 0.4.2. +This manual is for epspdf, version 0.4.3. -Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Siep Kroonenberg. +Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 Siep Kroonenberg. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided @@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ for the current file. ====================== Grayscaling: Simple color figures can be converted to grayscale. -Bitmapped data won't be converted. If grayscaling doesn't work on +Bitmapped data won't be converted. If grayscaling doesn't work even on non-bitmapped data, select the "Try harder to grayscale" option. This -may cause an extra pdf-PostScript roundtrip. +may cause an extra pdf-PostScript roundtrip, but grayscaling may still +fail. Compute tight boundingbox: This option is only available if a single page is converted. @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ preserved between sessions. 1.5.1 Configuring viewers ------------------------- -Under Linux, the preferred PostScript- and pdf viewers can be configured +Under Unix, the preferred PostScript- and pdf viewers can be configured in this screen. Epspdf looks for a number of PostScript- and pdf viewers, from which you can select one, but you can also enter one manually. @@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ epspdftk.rb. It is strongly recommended to invoke epspdf.rb via a wrapper script epspdf or epspdf.bat on the search path, e.g. #!/bin/sh - PATH_TO_EPSPDF/epspdf.rb "@" + PATH_TO_EPSPDF/epspdf.rb "$@" for Unix/Linux/OS X, or "PATH_TO_RUBY.EXE" "PATH_TO_EPSPDF.RB" %* for Windows. It is the responsibility of the caller to provide double @@ -157,15 +158,16 @@ Basic usage: 2.1 Option summary ================== -The summary below is the output of a command `epspdf --help' for help. +Typing `epspdf --help' gives you the following summary: $ epspdf --help - Epspdf version 0.4.2 - Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2009 Siep Kroonenberg - Epspdf 0.4.2 + Epspdf version 0.4.3 + Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 Siep Kroonenberg Convert between [e]ps and pdf formats Usage: epspdf.rb [options] infile [outfile] + Default for outfile is file.pdf if infile is file.eps or file.ps Default for outfile is file.eps if infile is file.pdf + -g, --gray, --grey Convert to grayscale; success not guaranteed -G, --GRAY, --GREY Try harder to convert to grayscale @@ -190,6 +192,7 @@ The summary below is the output of a command `epspdf --help' for help. -i, --info Info: display detected filetype -s Save (some) settings -d Debug: don't remove temp files + -v Prints version info -h, --help Show this message @@ -207,8 +210,7 @@ screenshots, but less so for diagrams and spreadsheet-generated graphics. A file in PostScript- or pdf format can contain both types of graphic -data, e.g. a text in vector format agains a photographic background in -bitmapped format. +data. Vector graphics can be freely scaled without losing sharpness or becoming pixellated. If bitmapped graphics are enlarged too much, @@ -339,10 +341,8 @@ grayscale image. It produces larger files than sam2p. -------------------------------- Create a batchfile `bitmap2eps.bat' with contents - sam2p "%~1" "%~dpn1.eps" (TeX Live) or - bmeps -c "%~1" "%~dpn1.eps" (MikTeX) and place it _e.g._ on your desktop. Now if you drop a bitmapped graphic on this batchfile then you will get an eps file with @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ dmensions of the pdf file. Other conversions preserve or generate a hires boundingbox. Under Windows, the new version looks for an installed TeX and will use -its private Ghostscript if it cannot find separately installed +its private Ghostscript if it cannot find a separately installed Ghostscript. TeX Live's pdftops, being on the searchpath, will be used unless epspdf finds another copy first. |