Bug#568167: epstopdf: the --nogs option does not work as a filter

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 02.02.10 Vincent Fourmond (fourmond@debian.org) wrote:

Hello,

> The --nogs option of epstopdf does not work as advertized; according
> to the manual page, it should behave essentially as the --filter
> option, but only producing the intermediate PS file and not feeding it
> to ghostscript. But see:
> 
> ~ epstopdf --nogs < bidule.ps > /dev/null
> [...]
> !!! Error: Input filename missing
> 
The manual page says:

EXAMPLES
<snip>
       Example: look for HiresBoundingBox and produce corrected
       PostScript:
       epstopdf -d --nogs --hires test.ps >testcorr.ps

Where do you see the note that --nogs should work the same way as
--filter?

H.
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