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Re: Necessity of epstool?


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: Necessity of epstool?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:03:52 -0500

On Jan 10, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

> On 01/10/2012 02:41 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> when using the -depsc switch in print I noticed the warning 
>> 
>> warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
>> Some output formats are not available.
>> 
>> However, I didn't find any differences (except for the timestamps) in
>> the generated eps file after I installed epstool.
>> 
>> What is epstool used for in Octave? Should we take the time to make it
>> available by default (installed alongside Octave) in Fedora?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jussi Lehtola
>> Fedora Project Contributor
>> 
>> address@hidden
> 
> Ben Abbott is working on this.  It is not used for much, and
> it may be possible to replace it with convert (from ImageMagick)
> or otherwise replace it.  It does not seem to be actively supported,
> but I am not too sure about this.   Wait for Ben....
> 
> Michael

Michael,

I'd forgotten about trying "covert". I'll take a look at it in the next few 
days. Is it able to tighten the bbox ?

Ben



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