Allow to use epspdf instead of epstopdf if the latter is broken

[ohl]

Hans-Werner Boschmann reports that epstopdf 2.9.8gw produces a corrupt src/omega/share/doc/modules.pdf. Try to catch this in configure.ac and support the newer alternative epspdf

[Juergen Reuter]

How do you get the version number of epstopdf in that way? When I do epstopdf --version or epstopdf -V, then I get only something like 2.11 or 2.15. Is this really something we have to take care of? One obvious thing to do would be to check in the configure for epspdf and when it is present to always use epspdf instead of epstopdf. THen we can still think of catching this strange thing Hans believes to have seen (I never had any problems), or just put it into the documentation and the Wiki.

[Juergen Reuter]

epstopdf does an identity string like epstopdf ($Id: epstopdf.pl 15843 2009-10-19 23:14:41Z karl $) 2.11 or epstopdf ($Id: epstopdf.pl 17496 2010-03-18 17:57:31Z karl $) 2.15 What I need from HWB is to provide me with the identification string from the version producing erroneous results to catch the faulty version.

[Juergen Reuter]

The epspdf from the TexLive? 2009 on the MAC does not work:

1759 2010/12/05 13:57:05 /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:451:in `parse'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1266:in `parse_in_order'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in `catch'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in `parse_in_order'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1248:in `order!'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1339:in `permute!'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1360:in `parse!'

The version is:

Epspdf version 0.4.2
Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2009 Siep Kroonenberg
Epspdf 0.4.2

Did anyone try this out with a different version? There seems to have been some changes for the MAC in version 0.4.3, the actual version is 0.5.1. Trying to install TexLive? 2010 at the moment, looking what happens there. But this means anyhow that we have to catch zillions of exceptions for the TeX installation. Do we REALLY want to do this? It's only important for the development.

[Juergen Reuter]

0.5.1. is working fine, so I will include a check for versions of epspdf to be at least 0.4.3. For your information, on the MAC there is sometimes a warning message like

warning: Insecure world writable dir /opt/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777

This can be cured by removing write permissions to "others" for the corresponding directory

chmod o-w /opt/local/bin

and so on.

[Juergen Reuter]

The epspdf check (with preference of a working epspdf over epstopdf) is done in r2919. The rest (catch for buggy epstopdf) will follow as soon as HWB provides me with the version specifications.

[Juergen Reuter]

Done finally in r2928. Closing.

[kilian]

Sorry to raise this again, but the fix breaks the WHIZARD build (from scratch):

[configure]
[make]
[...]
config.status: creating scripts/whizard-setup.csh
config.status: creating scripts/Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
Makefile:174: *** missing separator.  Stop.

The culprit is in the generated Makefile:

EPSPDFINTEGERVERSION = 004002
EPSPDFVERSION = 0.4.2
0.4.2
EPSTOPDF = epstopdf
EPSTOPDFVERSION = 2.11

(Didn't check further.)

[Juergen Reuter]

which svn version???? I believe that this is something which has already been fixed.

[kilian]

2936, checked out 10 min. ago. Fresh build in empty directory.

[Christian Speckner]

Wolfgang, could you post the output of epspdf --help on your system?

[kilian]

/usr/share/texmf/scripts/epspdf/epspdfrc.rb:156: warning: Insecure world writable dir /afs/tp1.physik.uni-siegen.de/user/kilian in PATH, mode 040777
Epspdf version 0.4.2
Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2009 Siep Kroonenberg
Epspdf 0.4.2
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         
    -p, --pagenumber=PAGENUMBER      Page to be converted or selected           
    -b, --bbox, --BoundingBox        Compute tight boundingbox                  
    -n, --no-hires                   Don't use hires boundingbox                
    -r, --hires                      Use hires boundingbox                      
    -T, --target=TARGET              Target use of pdf; one of                  
                                     default, printer, prepress, screen, ebook  
    -N, --pdfversion=PDFVERSION      Pdf version to be generated                
    -V, --version=PDFVERSION         Deprecated; use `-N' or `--pdfversion'.    
    -I                               Ignore pdftops even if available           
                                     (default: use if available)                
    -U                               Use pdftops if available                   
                                     (overrides previous -I setting)            
    -C, --custom=CUSTOMOPTIONS       Custom options for conversion to pdf,      
                                     view Use.htm and ps2pdf.htm from           
                                     the Ghostscript documentation set          
    -P, --psoptions=PSOPTIONS        Options for pdftops; default -level3,      
                                     don't include -eps or page number options; 
                                     these will be generated by the program     
    -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                          

[Christian Speckner]

Sorry, this was my bad when I fixed Juergens patch for my epspdf version; your epspdf outputs its version multiple times. I've checked in a fix.

[kilian]

The fix is not yet complete. Same problem in circe1 subdir (and maybe elsewhere).

[Juergen Reuter]

Well, that was just a missing ./update. But now the EPSPDFVERSION has vanished completely. :(

[Christian Speckner]

OK, I have done two more commits, now it should be fine, sorry again

[Juergen Reuter]

Works for me. WK, if it does for you, please close the ticket again.

[Juergen Reuter]

Assuming this works now; otherwise please reopen.