CTAN update: dvipng
Date: January 6, 2020 9:12:44 PM CET
Jan-Åke Larsson submitted an update to the
dvipng
package.
Version number: 1.17
License type: lgpl3
Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter
Announcement text:
Release notes for version 1.17 of the dvipng package: This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. This is a bugfix release that re-enables PK font rendering and enables gamma printout and interactive mode startup without DVI. Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvipng More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/dvipng
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
Release notes for version 1.17 of the dvipng package: This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. This is a bugfix release that re-enables PK font rendering and enables gamma printout and interactive mode startup without DVI. Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvipng More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/dvipng
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
dvipng – A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter
This program makes PNG and/or GIF graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX 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 TeX 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.
| Package | dvipng |
| Version | 1.17 |
| Copyright | 2002–2020 Jan-Åke Larsson |
| Maintainer | Jan-Åke Larsson |