Bug#191254: tetex-bin: epstopdf manpage, options filter/outfile are wrongly described
On 29.04.03 ernst.kloppenburg@de.bosch.com (ernst.kloppenburg@de.bosch.com) wrote:
Hi!
> the epstopdf manpage is not consistent with the behaviour of epstopdf
> w.r.t. the options --outfile and --filter.
>
> The description of '--outfile' implies that epstopdf always writes to
> standard output when this options is not given. But with no options,
> i.e. 'epstopdf xy.ps', epstopdf does _not_ write to standard output
> but to xy.pdf.
>
> The '--filter' option not only makes epstopdf read from standard input,
> but also makes it write to stdout.
>
> Thus a correct description of the options could be, with --filter
> first!:
>
>
> --[no]filter
> read standard input, write to standard output
> (default: --nofilter).
> --outfile=file
> when --filter ist given, write result to file instead of
> standard output.
>
I've attached a patch, which includes that. It should fit to the
manpage as of October 10th 1999. I've extended the last part a little
bit. I'm still dicing whom in upstream I should send the patch, the
author of epstopdf or the author of the manpage.
Thanks for contribution!
H.
--
sigmentation fault
--- epstopdf.1 Tue Jun 3 00:00:00 2003
+++ epstopdf-n.1 Tue Jun 17 11:41:32 2003
@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@
.P
If the bounding box is not right, of course, you have problems...
.SH OPTIONS
-.IP "\fB--outfile\fP=\fIfile\fP"
-write result to \fIfile\fP instead of standard output.
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBfilter\fP"
-read standard input (default: --nofilter).
+read standard input, write to standard output (default: --nofilter).
+.IP "\fB--outfile\fP=\fIfile\fP"
+when \fB--filter\fP ist given, write result to \fIfile\fP instead of
+standard output. If neither \fB--filter\fP nor \fB--outfile\fP is given
+write to \fIfile.pdf\fP.
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBgs\fP"
run ghostscript (default: --gs).
.IP "\fB--\fP[\fBno\fP]\fBcompress\fP"
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