CTAN upload notification: png2pdf 1.0.1
Date: August 4, 2003 3:55:34 PM CEST
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A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030804.001/.
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: png2pdf 1.0.1
Name and email: Dirk Krause <krause.dirk at web.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf
Summary description: PNG to PDF converter
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating posters, flyers having colored background.
----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:support/png2pdf/. Additionally, I extracted the README file from the archive and put it in this directory too. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team
The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating posters, flyers having colored background.
----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:support/png2pdf/. Additionally, I extracted the README file from the archive and put it in this directory too. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team
png2pdf – PNG to PDF converter
The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating posters, flyers having colored background, etc.
The package’s functionality is now replaced by bmpp, which is part of dktools.
| Package | png2pdf |
| Maintainer | Dirk Krause |