New CTAN package: dvipng

Jim Hefferon ftpmaint at alan.smcvt.edu
Mon Mar 17 18:55:24 CET 2003


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

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: dvipng
Author's name: Jan-Åke 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:
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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. 
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