Bug#237380: tetex-bin: epstopdf bug demo - it wrongly translates file.eps into file.pdf

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ajay Shah <ajayshah@mayin.org> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-5.1
> Severity: normal
>
> A file.eps is wrongly rotated to give you a wrong file.pdf. Both files
> are attached.
>
> In case it helps, the file.eps was created using R. But gv displays it
> perfectly. It is only epstopdf that is broken; i.e. the file.pdf comes
> out rotated (in xpdf and in acroread).

The following command will do it correctly:

GS_OPTIONS="AutoRotatePages=/None" epstopdf cm_test.eps 

This is a known-to-the-gurus problem of epstopdf, but there is currently
no upstream development. Not only because of lack of developers, but
also because of the lack of a usable, bug-free gs version.

We should keep this bug open for the record (and that others can find
the solution), and hope that things get better in the future.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie