sam2p broken (on windows)

[Jim]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 12:35 (+0200), Siep Kroonenberg via tex-live wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 12:32:54PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg via tex-live wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:48:23AM +0200, Uwe Siart wrote:
>>> It looks like sam2p is somehow broken. Any call of sam2p in the form

>>> sam2p file.jpg file.eps

>>> will only produce a zero-byte file file.eps. I tried both jpg and png
>>> bitmaps and also more than just one file. But all the same. sam2p won't
>>> produce any output.

>>> I can only speak for windows and can't tell if the same problem appears
>>> on other platforms. In TL22 sam2p works fine for me.

>> My experience with sam2p is that it often does not work, but I did
>> find a graphic that sam2p could convert with TL2022 but not with
>> TL2023. So youmay be right.

>> An alternative is bmeps:

>> bmeps -c file.png file.eps

>> The -c option is necessary to get color output.

> Both utilities are windows-only.

?

sam2p is available on some Linux distributions, and its source code is
(was? I haven't checked in a couple of years) available.

Do you mean that these utilities are only included with windows versions of
TL?

Cheers.
                                Jim