Bug#568167: epstopdf --nogs creates a file named -

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

tags 568167 + fixed-upstream
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On 30.03.11 Sergio Gelato (Sergio.Gelato@astro.su.se) wrote:

Hi,

> I confirm this bug (still present in squeeze, version 2009-10).
> To answer Hilmar's question, the manual page also says:
> 
> OPTIONS
>        --outfile=file
>               write result to file.  If this option is not given,  and  --nogs
>               or  --filter  is specified, write to standard output;
> 
> ./- is not standard output.
> 
Ahh, sorry. I didn't read the bug report to the end. I concentrated
on the first part, which spoke about input files:

<snip>
~ epstopdf --nogs < bidule.ps > /dev/null
[...]
!!! Error: Input filename missing

Whereas:

~ epstopdf --filter < bidule.ps > /dev/null

does not complain.
<snip>

Then the submitter spoke mostly about the output routine, which
confused me.

I'm glad to tell, that the epstopdf version on CTAN solves your
problem:

hille@sid:~ $ ./epstopdf.pl --nogs xdvibug.ps > zzz1.ps
hille@sid:~ $ ls -l zzz1.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 hille users 39984 Mar 30 19:00 zzz1.ps
hille@sid:~ $ ./epstopdf.pl --nogs xdvibug.ps |tail
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<snip>

I tag your bug as fixed in upstream.

H.
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