Bug 67465

Summary:	EPS rendering: locating pstoedit on Mac a problem
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Michael Meeks <michael.meeks>
Component:	Libreoffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	etiffany, libreoffice, qubit, vstuart.foote
Version:	4.1.0.3 rc
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34836 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67464 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=72096
Whiteboard:	EasyHack DifficultyInteresting SkillCpp TopicCleanup
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Michael Meeks 2013-07-29 09:53:09 UTC

bug#34836 is an unreadable mess - but one of its problems is that of not being able to find pstoedit in it's path.

Rendering EPS requires pstoedit thus:

static bool RenderAsEMF(const sal_uInt8* pBuf, sal_uInt32 nBytesRead, Graphic &rGraphic)
{
    TempFile aTemp;
    aTemp.EnableKillingFile();
    OUString fileName("pstoedit" EXESUFFIX);
    OUString arg1("-f");
    OUString arg2("emf:-OO");
    OUString arg3("-");
    OUString output;
    osl::FileBase::getSystemPathFromFileURL(aTemp.GetName(), output);
    rtl_uString *args[] =
    {
        arg1.pData, arg2.pData, arg3.pData, output.pData
    };


If the program is not in your path - it will not be found. We could of course try to add a series of paths to try in this eventuality.

Comment 1 Michael Meeks 2013-07-29 09:59:07 UTC

Making this an easy-hack. The code is in:

filter/source/graphicfilter/ieps/ieps.cxx

If the initial spawning of that filter fails, we should probably hard-code a set of other paths particularly: /opt/local/bin - which seems to be where Mac people like to hide this out of their path these days ;-)

Thanks !

Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2013-10-04 18:47:02 UTC

adding LibreOffice developer list as CC to unresolved EasyHacks for better visibility.

see e.g. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-td4076214.html for details

Comment 3 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2013-10-23 17:24:44 UTC

Removing comma from whiteboard (please use a space to delimit values in this field)
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Whiteboard#Getting_Started

Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2014-04-27 19:36:09 UTC

There was a similar issue with ieps.cxx for Windows builds to find correct path to ImageMagick convert.exe (see AOO issue 72096) Caolan M. fixed that back in Nov 2009, perhaps a similar approach for OSX and pstoedit?

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