[tex-live] Re: epstopdf bug?

Lars Madsen daleif@imf.au.dk
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:17:16 +0200 (METDST)


Actually the wierd thing is that the combination of 

epstopdf version 2.7 2001/03/05

combined with

GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28)

works just fine (on Linux).

I'm not able to update the GS versions since I don't have root access.
Our GS installation (on Linux, our UNIX machines are also running GNU GS
6.51) comes with the RedHat dist.


The epstopdf version is just the one distributed with TeXLive 7.

/daleif

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> Lars Madsen posts pointers to
> 
> 	http://home.imf.au.dk/daleif/original-ps.ps
> 	http://home.imf.au.dk/daleif/gs651epstopdf25.pdf
> 	http://home.imf.au.dk/daleif/gs550epstopdf27.pdf
> 
> and asks about the bad output in gs651epstopdf25.pdf.
> 
> I've been a ghostscript beta tester for several years, and have gotten
> used to this sort of thing.  I keep 40+ versions of ghostscript around
> to test just this sort of thing.
> 	
> It does indeed seem to be a bug in gs-6.51.  
> 
> I made a simple wrapper script that tried each of these 6.x and 7.x
> Aladdin ghostscript versions:
> 
> 	6.01 6.0 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.30 6.31 6.32 6.50 6.61 6.62
> 	6.63 6.64 7.00 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.30
> 	
> I skipped the earlier 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x versions.  I got correct
> output from all of them, but notice that 6.51 is not among them.
> 
> Version 6.51 is absent from all of my architectures; my build-log
> history shows that I jumped from 6.50 to 6.61.  Those builds are
> from 5-dec-2000 and 24-Feb-2001.
> 
> Digging further, I found that version 6.51 is a GNU release, which
> I've normally not built.  I got its distribution from
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ghostscript/ghostscript-6.51.tar.gz
> 
> but found it broken: it is missing Makefiles and configure script.
> 
> I suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable GNU version:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ghostscript/ghostscript-7.05.tar.gz
> 
> or if you are adventurous, try the latest:
> 
> 	ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/test/ghostscript-7.22.tar.bz2
> 
> if you can get a connection (I cannot at the moment.)
> 
> Mvh fra SLC!
> 
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