CTAN has a new package: a2ping
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint at alan.smcvt.edu
Wed Apr 21 15:04:22 CEST 2004
A new one has been installed to tug.ctan.org. It should appear at
your favorite mirror very soon, if indeed it is not already there.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: a2ping
Author's name: Szabó Péter
Location on CTAN: graphics/a2ping
Summary description: advanced PS, PDF, EPS converter
License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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a2ping is a UNIX command line utility written in Perl that converts many
raster image and vector graphics formats to EPS or PDF and other page
description formats. Accepted input file formats are: PS (PostScript), EPS,
PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PNM, BMP, GIF, LBM, XPM, PCX, TGA. Accepted output
formats are: EPS, PCL5, PDF, PDF1, PBM, PGM, PPM, PS, markedEPS, markedPS,
PNG, XWD, BMP, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, XPM. a2ping delegates the low-level
work to Ghostscript (GS), pdftops and sam2p. a2ping fixes many glitches
during the EPS to EPS conversion, so its output is often more compatible
and better embeddable than its input.
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/a2ping
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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