CTAN package update: epstopdf perl script
Date: May 18, 2007 12:46:14 PM CEST
from our upload daemon:
ctan-upload at tex.ac.uk wrote:
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
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> Name of contribution: epstopdf perl script
> Author's name: Gerben Wierda
> Location on CTAN: support/epstopdf
> Summary description: Script to translate EPS files to PDF files. May
> require ghostscript.
> License type: bsd
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This script is maintained as part of TeX Live. This CTAN version is
> not updated regularly.
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i have installed the new version of the script, and removed the old
("windows") c-coded version which was out of date, buggy and whose
maintainers we could not contact.
thanks for the upload.
> You can have a look at the package at
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http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/epstopdf/epstopdf
i have updated the catalogue repository, but not regenerated the web
pages. the web catalogue entry
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/epstopdf.html
should reflect the new situation by about 0100 local time here.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
epstopdf – Convert EPS to PDF using Ghostscript
Epstopdf is a Perl script that converts an EPS file to an
‘encapsulated’ PDF file (a single page file whose
media box is the same as the original EPS’s bounding
box). The resulting file suitable for inclusion by pdfTeX as an
image.
The script is adapted to run both on Windows and on Unix-alike
systems.
The script makes use of
Ghostscript for the actual
conversion to PDF. It assumes Ghostscript version 6.51 or later,
and (by default) suppresses its automatic rotation of pages where
most of the text is not horizontal.
LaTeX users may make use of the
epstopdf package, which will run
the epstopdf script “on the fly”, thus giving the
illusion that pdfLaTeX is accepting EPS graphic files.
| Package | epstopdf |
| Version | 2.36 2024-07-11 |
| Copyright | 1998–2001 Sebastian Rahtz et al.
2002–2009 Gerben Wierda et al.
2009–2024 Karl Berry et al.
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| Maintainer | Karl Berry
Thomas Esser (inactive)
Heiko Oberdiek (inactive)
Gerben Wierda (inactive)
Sebastian Rahtz (deceased)
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