Bug#412107: texlive-base-bin: a2ping spits out alarming error although all is well
Dear Frank,
> I just discovered a2ping, which seems to be a good alternative to
> epstopdf.
Indeed. I use a2ping instead of epstopdf. It also improves some other
conversion directions (e.g. PDF to PS with pdftops).
> Name "main::opt_extra" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/a2ping line 546.
> Name "main::opt_help" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/a2ping line 534.
This has been fixed recently. I uploaded the latest version a few minutes ago:
http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/a2ping-latest.zip
> * Ghostscript dup pipe: gs -dSAFER -dNODISPLAY -dBATCH -sFN=bilder/5.3M-FCS-tauD.pdf -q /tmp/a2ping_pl-17045-81116080-p.tgs
> ESP Ghostscript 815.03: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> * warning: gs failed to locate double /MediaBox
> Aha, in fact nothing went wrong. I don't know the purpose of this
> intermediate call, but it seems that at least its stderr should be
> discarded.
The purpose of the intermediate call is to calculate the bounding box, and
gather some other (meta)information about the document with Ghostscript.
The error should not be hidden, stderr should not be discarded. The very
purpose of the error is to have it bugreported to the author of a2ping (me).
Please retry with the new a2ping, and if the problem still persists,
please send me an example source file, and the Ghostscript version you are
using, so I can start diagnosing what fails.
Best regards,
Péter
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