[R-pkg-devel] Problem compressing vignettes for CRAN

[Michael Dewey]

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:
> В Fri, 6 Oct 2023 15:36:45 +0100
> Michael Dewey <lists using dewey.myzen.co.uk> пишет:
> 
>> 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