[tex-live] extractbb win32 binary generates garbaged filename

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Mon Nov 10 13:15:03 CET 2008


> On Windows XP, issuing command such as:
>
>    extractbb ArtOfNoize.jpg
>
> generates an xbb file with garbaged characters at its end.
> (for instance, "ArtOfNoise.xbb$(G(B,")
>
> This problem does not occur always;
> extractbb shows weird behavior only with some graphic files.
> In a directory in which I have executed extractbb for 53 jpg files,
> 10 xbb files thus generated have garbaged filename.
>
> You may download one of the graphic files at issue from:
> http://people.ktug.or.kr/~nomos/mine/ArtOfNoise.jpg .

I cannot reproduce the behavior.
The generated xbb file is:

%%Title: ./ArtOfNoise.jpg
%%Creator: extractbb Version 0.2
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 67 67
%%CreationDate: Mon Nov 10 21:08:42 2008

-- 
Akira Kakuto


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