CTAN update: dvi2bitmap 0.13

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Tue Aug 23 20:40:09 CEST 2005


On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 Norman Gray submitted version 0.13 of his package

   dvi2bitmap

to CTAN.

dvi2bitmap is a utility to convert TeX DVI files directly to bitmaps,
without going through the complicated (and slow!) route of conversion via
PostScript and PNM.  The prime motivation for this is to prepare
mathematical equations for inclusion in HTML files but there are many
other uses beyond that.  It can generate XBM and GIF bitmaps, plus PNG, if
you have the libpng library installed.  It uses the same kpathsea
font-searching library as other TeX programs, again as long as you have
the appropriate library installed.  The program is written in C++, and
incidentally provides a good object interface for DVI and PK files.

Location on CTAN: dviware/dvi2bitmap
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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New stable release.  Mainly bugfix changes to 0.12, but the source has moved to
sourceforge, requiring a number of build system tweaks.

See also <dvi2bitmap.sourceforge.net>
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Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf




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