Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> Curious. In Edit | Preferences | Converters, what program is being >> used to >> convert EPS to PDF (probably either convert or epstopdf)? I find >> that convert works on my system (give or take some scaling issues) >> but epstopdf fails. > > I have found that a wrapper script that first cleans up your eps file > using eps2eps (epstoeps?) and then invokes epstopdf with the > cleaned-up file works beautifully. > > What I find perverse is that both scripts are part of the same > ghostscript distribution, yet epstopdf is so much more fragile than > eps2eps. > > Go figure. > Wrapping epstopdf in eps2eps worked here, too, although in my case they don't seem to come from the same distribution (eps2eps comes with Ghostscript but epstopdf doesn't; found epstopdf in MiKTeX's bin directory). Another mystery solved (or at least remediated). -- Paul
