CTAN Update: epstopdf
epstopdf is a Perl script that converts EPS to PDF (or other formats) using (by default) Ghostscript. Changes in this version: New option --gray to grayscale output, thanks to William Bader; it passes -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray to Ghostscript. The option --device is disallowed in restricted mode (previously some devices were allowed); it is still accepted (with any value) in non-restricted mode. Mailing list: http://lists.tug.org/tex-k Home page: http://tug.org/epstopdf
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Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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. |
| Maintainer | Karl Berry Thomas Esser (inactive) Heiko Oberdiek (inactive) Gerben Wierda (inactive) Sebastian Rahtz (deceased) |