Bug#191254: tetex-bin: epstopdf manpage, options filter/outfile are wrongly described
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-8
Severity: normal
Hello!
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.
E. Kloppenburg
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux sh24593 2.4.20 #2 Mon Apr 28 10:19:35 CEST 2003 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debianutils 1.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libkpathsea3 1.0.7+20011202 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii libpng3 1.2.1-1.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-5 X Athena widget set library
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20011202 basic teTeX library files
ii xlibs 4.2.1-5 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
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