Message-ID: <b2c5d251-eb6c-5074-bc5a-3e32dfeedd83@dewey.myzen.co.uk>
Date: 2023-10-06T15:30:26Z
From: Michael Dewey
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN
In-Reply-To: <20231006174828.651b58c7@arachnoid>
Dear Ivan
You must have psychic powers. After some digging I find that the copy
installed by TexLive is hidden from other software so I need to install
it again. I suppose while I am at it I should try installing qpdf.
Michael
On 06/10/2023 15:48, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> ? Fri, 6 Oct 2023 15:36:45 +0100
> Michael Dewey <lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk> ?????:
>
>> But I did use the option --compact-vignettes=both when I built the
>> tarball.
>
>> I do have gs installed but not qpdf. I built the package under
>> Windows if that is relevant.
>
> Is the Ghostscript executable on the %PATH%? It might help to install a
> newer version. It may also be informative to extract the vignette *.pdf
> files from the source package tarball and run tools::compactPDF(pdfs,
> gs_quality='ebook', verbose = TRUE) to see whether it breaks at any
> point.
>
--
Michael