Bug#912417: texlive-extra-utils: man a2ping displays garbled text
Package: texlive-extra-utils
Version: 2018.20181009-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/a2ping
The a2ping man page displays like that:
A2PING(1) Peter Szabo A2PING(1)
NAME
a2ping.pl -- convert between PS, EPS and PDF and other page description
formats
SYNOPSIS
Z<> B<a2ping.pl> [B<-->]B<help>
B<a2ping.pl> [B<-->]B<doc>
B<a2ping.pl> [I<options>] <I<inputfile>> [[I<outformat>:] I<outputfile>]
DESCRIPTION
B<a2ping> is a UNIX command line utility written in Perl that converts many
raster image and vector graphics formats to EPS or PDF and other page
description formats. Accepted input file formats are: PS (PostScript), EPS,
PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PNM, BMP, GIF, LBM, XPM, PCX, TGA. Accepted output
formats are: EPS, PCL5, PDF, PDF1, PBM, PGM, PPM, PS, markedEPS, markedPS,
PNG, XWD, BMP, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, XPM. B<a2ping> delegates the low-level work
to Ghostscript (GS), B<pdftops> and B<sam2p>. B<a2ping> fixes many glitches
during the EPS to EPS conversion, so its output is often more compatible and
better embeddable than its input. Without the C<--below> option, it is
...
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