# epstool mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für epstool in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:epstool
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install epstool
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install epstool
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: print/epstool/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install epstool
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: epstool from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install epstool
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: epstool from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#epstool
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ep/epstool/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:epstool
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.09
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Edit preview images and fix bounding boxes in EPS files
- **Homepage:** <http://www.ghostgum.com.au/software/epstool.htm>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- epstool (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 3.09
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Epstool is a Ghostgum utility for Encapsulated PostScript files. Its official page describes it as a tool to create or extract preview images in EPS files, fix bounding boxes, and convert EPS content to bitmaps.

### Projektgeschichte

The official page distributes epstool 3.09 as Windows zip and Unix tar.gz archives and was updated on August 11, 2018. It fits the Ghostscript/GSview ecosystem of practical PostScript tools maintained by Russell Lang.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Epstool has a quiet but durable packaging footprint because EPS preview and bounding-box repair are recurring needs in TeX, publishing, and PostScript workflows. In this dataset it is packaged by Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, and Ubuntu.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Documented examples include adding TIFF previews, extracting previews, calculating a corrected BoundingBox from a Ghostscript bitmap, and copying an EPS file while adjusting its BoundingBox. The page says it works on Win32, Win64, OS/2, and Unix.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Epstool is a classic small Unix-style graphics utility: it does a narrow EPS repair/conversion job, depends on Ghostscript for bitmap generation, and remains useful to people keeping older PostScript publishing workflows reproducible.

### Zeitleiste

- 2018: Official Epstool page updated and epstool 3.09 offered for Windows and Unix.

### Related projects

- Ghostscript is used by Epstool to create preview bitmaps.
- GSview is part of the same Ghostgum/PostScript tooling context.

### Quellen

- <https://www.ghostgum.com.au/software/epstool.htm>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - epstool - 3.09-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: epstool from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | edit preview images and fix bounding boxes in EPS files | http://www.ghostgum.com.au/software/epstool.htm
- Nix - epstool: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ep/epstool/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - epstool - 3.09-4build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: epstool from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | edit preview images and fix bounding boxes in EPS files | http://www.ghostgum.com.au/software/epstool.htm
- dnf - epstool - 3.08-34.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: epstool from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A utility to create or extract preview images in EPS files | http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
- MacPorts - epstool: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: print/epstool/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/epstool.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/epstool.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph