Re: \epsfile fails

[David Kastrup]

Mark Theodoropoulos <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2015-07-31 8:55 AM, Kyle Shaw wrote:
>> [ . . . ]
>> ...and I get this:
>>
>> warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
>> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 - dCompatibilityLevel=1.4
>> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./test.pdf
>> -c.setpdfwrite -ftest.ps)' failed (256)
>>
>> fatal error: failed files: "~/test.ly"
>>
>> Any ideas why I can't get \epsfile to work?
>
> On the invisible-because-too-obvious side, that is exactly the message
> I get when I have inadvertently left test.pdf open in an external
> reader!

"~/test.ly" does not look like a Windows file name, and that problem is
typical for Windows I think.  That's not perfect proof but it would be
my guess that something else may be involved here.

One thing to note is "-dSAFER" here: anything in the included file that,
say, tries opening an external file or do other non-safe things will
lead to an abort.

-- 
David Kastrup