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Re: Necessity of epstool?
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Necessity of epstool? |
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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
Re: Necessity of epstool?, Ben Abbott, 2012/01/10