e2pall(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💖 e2pall — the girlies' guide to yeeting ALL your EPS files into PDFs 💖

okay so bestie, gather round, because this one is a General Commands Manual classic: e2pall(1). no cap, it does exactly one job and honestly? we respect the hustle. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

e2pall — convert all the EPS files in a LaTeX document to PDF. all of them. every single one. slay. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

e2pall TEXFILE

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: e2pall goes digging through TEXFILE looking for \includegraphics commands, and that's how it figures out the base names of your image files. 👑

the moment it finds one, it calls up epstopdf(1) to spin a PDF file out of the EPS file. iconic teamwork honestly.

and because she's considerate 💖, e2pall will also check that an existing PDF file is actually up-to-date with the EPS file. if the PDF file is newer than the EPS file? she simply will not run epstopdf(1). no wasted effort, main character energy only. ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

got beef? bug reports go to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> — that's a public mailing list, so be normal about it bestie. 🙈

and now for the part where we hold hands and accept reality 😭:

  • Seems to be broken
  • Cannot handle \input{filename} or \includegraphics{filename} split over more than one line
  • Must be run from same directory as the LaTeX file
  • Does not look down $TEXINPUTS
  • Cannot handle documents that use \include commands
  • Assumes all files included with \includegraphics are EPS files
lowkey that's a lot of caveats. she's doing her best, okay?? but fr fr, read that list before you blame yourself. 💅

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • epstopdf(1) — the bestie she calls in to do the actual converting 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

e2pall was written by Jody Klymak and published in a posting to the <pdftex@tug.org> (mailing list). we love a legend sharing their work with the group chat. 💜

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is now maintained as part of TeX Live. 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from TeX Live, dated 8 March 2022 — so if you're reading this from the future, hi, ily, go check for a newer version. mwah 💋✨

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