On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 03:51:48PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> as found in the Debian bug tracking system the --outfile options
> stops working as soon as the --filter option is used. The following
> command is expected to create the file a.pdf, but the pdf is written
> to stdout:
>
> epstopdf --filter --outfile=a.pdf < a.ps
>
> The problem is still in the latest epstopdf from CTAN. Please have a
> look at this.
This is due to the section around line 304 in epstopdf.pl:
if ($::opt_filter) {
debug "Filtering: will write standard output";
$OutputFilename = "-";
} else {
debug "Output filename:", $OutputFilename;
}
which should presumably be replaced by the single line:
debug "Output filename:", $OutputFilename;
There is a slight contradiction in the manpage for epstopdf, where
only the explanation of --outfile suggests that --filter overrides
--outfile; presumably, this should instead say "If --nogs or --filter
is specified, the default is to write to standard output." Here are
the relevant parts:
--outfile=file
write result to file; the default is to construct the output
file name by replacing any extension in the input file with
.pdf. If --nogs or --filter is specified, write to standard
output.
[...]
--[no]filter
read standard input (default: off).
[...]
EXAMPLES
Examples for producing "test.pdf":
epstopdf test.eps
produce postscript | epstopdf --filter >test.pdf
produce postscript | epstopdf -f -d -o=test.pdf
Julian
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