sam2p broken (on windows)

[Zdenek Wagner]

st 18. 10. 2023 v 15:21 odesílatel Jim <zlists+texlive at jdvb.ca> napsal:
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> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 12:35 (+0200), Siep Kroonenberg via tex-live wrote:
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> > 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
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> >>> 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:
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> >> bmeps -c file.png file.eps
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> >> 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?
>
Many utilities are distributed with Windows version of TL only because
they exist as packages in Linux distros. Among others, this is the
case of perl, lzdma, and ghostscript. I use ImageMagick for image
conversion which most probably exists for Windows too but it depends
on ghostscript. Installation in Windows can thus be a bit complicated.

> Cheers.
>                                 Jim


Zdeněk Wagner
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