CTAN update: png2pdf 1.0.6

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Thu Feb 17 00:51:02 CET 2005


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 Dirk Krause uploaded version 1.0.6 of his png2pdf
package.

Location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf
Summary description: Converter from PNG to PDF, Update and Bugfix
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
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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.

An option "-n" or "--interpolation" was created
to add an "/Interpolate true" entry to the image
dictionary. This suggests PDF viewers to show an
interpolated image on screen.
Previous versions possibly crashed/dumped core
when problems occured while reading PNG files.
The libpng routines use the setjmp()/longjmp()
mechanism on errors but png2pdf did not set up
a jump buffer. This is fixed now.

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Thanks for the update.


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf




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