CTAN package update: dvipng

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Sat May 10 13:32:44 CEST 2008


This package has been updated and should soon work its way through the system.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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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/GIF converter
License type: lgpl

Announcement text: 
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Release notes for version 1.10 of the dvipng package:
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and 
its relatives.

>From v 1.10, dvipng will be available under the LGPL.

The main code addition is limited support for literal PostScript specials, 
using gs. 

Other changes include internal changes to the DVI stack, DVI flags, some 
build issues on AIX and glyph-index-checking fixes.

Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipng
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dvipng
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .



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