CTAN update: epstopdf
epstopdf 2.32 corrects the path for the Ghostscript that TeX Live provides on Windows, and gives a better error message if either kpsewhich or gs is not found in the current PATH. General description: epstopdf is a Perl script that converts an EPS file to an encapsulated PDF file (a single-page self-contained file whose media box is the same as the original EPS's bounding box). The resulting file is suitable for inclusion as an image. The script is adapted to run both on Windows and on Unix-ish systems. The script makes use of Ghostscript (overridable) 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 (restricted form of the) epstopdf script on the fly, thus giving the illusion that pdfLaTeX, etc. is accepting EPS graphic files. Please email bug reports to tex-k at tug.org.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/support/epstopdf/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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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 | 2.33 2023-09-15 |
| Copyright | 1998–2001 Sebastian Rahtz et al. 2002–2009 Gerben Wierda et al. 2009–2023 Karl Berry et al. |
| Maintainer | Karl Berry Thomas Esser (inactive) Heiko Oberdiek (inactive) Gerben Wierda (inactive) Sebastian Rahtz (deceased) |