[OS X TeX] epstopdf glitch

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

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> On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
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>> Hi, all,
>> 
>> I just updated (via TLU) my tex-live 2010 installation, on two systems: 10.5.8 and 10.6.4.  When I do this, I run a quick check to verify that things aren't broken.  On the 10.6 system, I have run into a problem which looks like a config problem of some sort, with 'epstopdf' failing.  The same test works on 10.5 (identical .tex files).
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>> The error shows up in the TeXShop console window, but not in the .log file produced as a byproduct of compilation:
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>> (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd)epstopdf ($Id: ep
>> stopdf.pl 18319 2010-05-17 16:34:21Z karl $) 2.16
>> !!! Error: Output filename '/Users/justin/Pictures/wolf_eel_thumbnail-eps-conver
>> ted-to.pdf' not allowed in restricted mode.
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>> The man page and "texdoc" don't happen to mention "restricted mode", so I'm sort of clueless (and Perl-averse).
>> 
>> --
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> Perhaps you've been hit by changes to \write18 in TeXLive 2010 as detailed in section 10.2 of 
> 
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
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> Michael

Howdy,

If anything the restricted \write18 (shell escape) feature in TL2010 should make it easier to include eps figures in pdf(la)tex documents since you will not need to set --shell-escape explicitly once graphic(s/x) is loaded. That is true only for conversion of foo.eps->foo-eps-converted-to.pdf using epstopdf (which is auto-loaded by the grapohic(s/x) package when run under pdf(la)tex).

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)