OK, enough is enough. I _want_ to release 1.2.2 rsn and this epsi situation is getting on my nerves :) I'd appreciate any help on this... Read below on how you can help.
>>>>> "Rod" == Rod Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could you send me a file that does not work well? >> Rod> Attached. Since the files are small, I've sent them to the list Rod> as well, in case anyone is curious. I've sent the origianl files, Rod> and the converted file, using Rod> eps2eps X.eps X-eps2eps.eps So eps2eps is crap (I get the same result as you do). We need to get rid of it. Two solutions: - replace eps2eps by a perl/whatever script that removes the preview from the epsi. However it seems that it is not enough (see below) - get rid of epsi support (I tend to lean towards this one). I began to make some research about what files cause problems. The only one I found is mentionned by herbert: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg39607.html The file proposed here is from pstill. It is indeed an epsi file, but with the strange feature that the preview is like %%BeginPreview: 394 472 1 472 % 0000000000000000000000000000000000003fc0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000 % 000000000000000000000000000000000000fff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000 [...] % 00000000000000000000000000000000000500fc3ce000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000 % 0000000000000000000000000000000000020003e04000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000 %%EndImage %%EndPreview What is this %%EndImage doing there? Does it make any sense in epsi? So I took the file, edited it to remove the preview and obtained the attached file (pendula2.eps). If I try to run convert on it, it just fails! Could other people try it too? Also, could somebody who knows about that tell me whether I should do something else to turn an epsi file into an eps one? My conclusion from all this is that it is not the epsi-ness of the file that is a problem, but its brokenness! It is a ps file converted to eps, and clearly pstill has not been very good at doing it. So, was the epsi argument just a red herring? In this case, we should really remove all trace of epsi handling from 1.2.2 since it is causing us endless problems (and tell people with broken pstill files to try something else...). Are there other people who have problematic epsi files? I'd really like to see them... I'd be interested too to know whether latest imagemagick release are able to handle the files correctly. JMarc
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