[tex-live] pretest: epstopdf overwrites existing files
Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)
P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Wed Jul 8 09:54:55 CEST 2009
Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 05:48:31PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>> That seems ok. Maybe we can omit the -to, to make it a little shorter.
>> Just foo.{eps,png,...}-converted.pdf still seems ok? Either way.
>
> Yes, it's fine with me: \epstopdfsetup{suffix=.\SourceExt-converted}
> Someone has used "aux" in his suggestion. It could be extended
> by \SourceExt:
> \epstopdfsetup{suffix=.\SourceExt-aux}
> It would be shorter, but probably also less understandable.
> Opinions?
"converted" is ambiguous (it could mean "converted-from");
"converted-to" is unambiguous and therefore preferable,
IMHO.
** Phil.
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