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New CTAN package: dvipng

Date: March 17, 2003 5:55:24 PM CET
A new packge has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint at tug.ctan.org ======================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: dvipng Author's name: Jan-�ke Larsson Location on CTAN: dviware/dvipng Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG converter License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include * Speed. It is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files known to the author. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. * It does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. * It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more. The motivation for this project is preview-latex, a previewing tool for LaTeX in emacs, but since dvipng can be independently useful, a separate package is provided. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

dvipng – A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter

This program makes PNG and/or GIF graphics from DVI files as obtained from and its relatives. Its benefits include:

  • Speed. It offers very fast rendering of DVI as bitmap files, which makes it suitable for generating large amounts of images on-the-fly, as needed in preview-latex, WeBWorK and others;
  • It does not read the postamble, so it can be started before finishes. There is a --follow switch that makes dvipng wait at end-of-file for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI;
  • Interactive query of options. dvipng can read options interactively through stdin, and all options are usable. It is even possible to change the input file through this interface.
  • Support for PK, VF, PostScript Type1, and TrueType fonts, colour specials, and inclusion of PostScript, PNG, JPEG or GIF images.

Packagedvipng
Version1.17
Copyright2002–2020 Jan-Åke Larsson
MaintainerJan-Åke Larsson

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