Re: [TL25/pretest]: sam2p crashes directly after call

On 2026/02/18 0:31, Uwe Siart via tex-live wrote:
> The samp2.exe distributed in TL25 and pretest crashes on windows with an
> "application error", see attached screenshot.
> 
> The windows binary available from
> <https://github.com/pts/sam2p/releases> works fine.
> 
> Maybe the problem is that the version on CTAN
> <https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sam2p> is too old?
> 
Here it seems to work:

sam2p --help
This is sam2p 0.49.4.
Available Loaders: PS PDF JAI PNG JPEG TIFF PNM BMP GIF LBM XPM PCX TGA.
Available Appliers: XWD Meta Empty BMP PNG TIFF6 TIFF6-JAI JPEG-JAI JPEG PNM GIF89a+LZW XPM PSL1C PSL23+PDF PSL2+PDF-JAI P-TrOpBb.
Usage:   sam2p <filename.job>
          sam2p [options] <in.img> [OutputFormat:] <out.img>
Example: sam2p test.gif EPS: test.eps


In 2023, I replaced a 64-bit sam2p with a 32-bit one, since
64-bit one was broken. You said that 32bit one warked:
   Akira Kakuto <[email protected]> writes:

   > Sorry. I replaced by the 32bit version of sam2p.exe, which seems to work.

   Yes. Thanks. Fine again after today's update.

   --
   Uwe


Thanks,
Akira